5 And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given it, and authority to act 42 months was given it (Revelation 11).
The reason that it had to ask for this authority was because these months occur in the kingdom, after 2008Nisan17. But why was this request granted and why 42 months?
It was granted and it was that long because Jesus borrowed, for his ministry, 3½ years of Kingdom authority, actually from 2008Sivan6, when the Kingdom administration began, to 2011Chislev6, the 1NC reserve new Pentecost, following the first new Passover on 2011Tishri14. He used it between 29Heshvan24 (the water into wine at Cana) and 33Iyyar27 when he ascended (excluding the 3 days between 33Nisan14 and 33Nisan17 when we has not alive as a human), making 1260 days precisely or 42 BLC months.
As a result the authority that saints should have had on 2008Sivan6 (the first Pentecost of the Kingdom of God), to cure the sick and expel demons etc. are delayed until 2011Chislev6. This is why the Kingdom came without any striking observableness. The striking observableness for the church comes on 2011Chislev6, when the extra 42 months of authority of Satan ends.
This raises the following question...
Q: How were the apostles and those they laid hands upon able to do miracles
after Jesus ministry had ended?
A: The apostles were given that power during his ministry, he sent the 12 out
with authority specifically to expel demons during his ministry...
1 Then he called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to cure sicknesses.
2 And so he sent them forth to preach the kingdom of God and to heal (Luke 9),
1 After these things the Lord designated 70 others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to
come (Luke 10).
17 Then the 70 returned with joy, saying: Lord, even the demons are made subject to us by the use of your name.
18 At that he said to them: I began to behold Satan already fallen like lightning from heaven.
19 Look! I have given you the authority to trample underfoot serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will by any means do you hurt.
20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice over this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names have been inscribed in the heavens (Luke 10).
14 And he formed [a group of] 12, whom he also named apostles, that they might continue with him and that he might send them out to preach
15 and to have authority to expel the demons (Mark 3)
5 These 12 Jesus sent forth, giving them these orders: Do not go off into the road of the nations, and do not enter into a Samaritan city;
6 but, instead, go continually to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 As you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.'
8 Cure sick people, raise up dead persons, make lepers clean, expel demons. You received free, give free (Matthew 10).
These 12 we suppose laid their hand on the 70 who then had authority over the demons who were made subject to them so that if they asked them to shut up they would. But the 70 are not said to have had authority to expel demons.
These things prefigure the kingdom power that was borrowed from the 42 months of kingdom authority referred to in Revelation 11. the 42 months run from 2008Sivan6 to 2011Chislev6, the first 42 months of Kingdom authority which were swapped for Jesus' ministry. Now in this period people would have had the powers seen in Jesus' ministry. In particular 12 apostles would have been given the power to expel demons and they would have been able to give that power to others intransitively. So the same occurred during Jesus' ministry. They used that power on the 70 during the ministry and on others after Pentecost when they got further heavenly powers. But this was only possible because they were given those powers during his ministry, in the borrowed kingdom authority period. Paul was not baptised during Jesus' ministry so although he was given great gifts of the spirit by the laying on of the hands of ones of the apostles, he was never himself able to give those powers to anyone else.
Jesus ministry was in authority 3½ years of the kingdom of God. So on 2011Chislev6, we will have precisely the gifts of the spirit that the first century Christians had, because their gifts came from this very time period. 2011Chislev6 (2011December5-6) is essentially 33Sivan6.