'Permission' in the Bible

I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

A second horse went out. It was fiery red, and its rider was given permission to take peace away from the earth and to make people slaughter one another. So he was given a large sword.

Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.

And permission was given him to make war upon God's people and conquer them; and power was given him over every tribe, people, language and nation.