Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Ver. 21. Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah] Governors are sure to meet with many difficulties and discouragements (high seats are never but uneasy), and had need therefore of singular consolation, that they may hold on their course, like the sun in the firmament, and show themselves to be of an undaunted resolution. We may well say to governors, as that prophetic Simeon spoke to the pillars which he whipped before the earthquake: Stand fast, for ye shall be shaken.
I will shake the heavens and the earth] sc. By abrogating and abolishing both Jewish ceremonies and heathenish superstitions, Hebrews 12:27. As also by national commotions, and translations of monarchies; the Greeks shall break the power of the Persians, the Romans of the Greeks, the Goths and other barbarous nations of the Romans, Matthew 24:7. But especially, by casting the devil out of the heaven of men s hearts, Luke 10:18, those strongholds wherein he had entrenched himself, 2 Corinthians 10:4,5, that the ransomed of the Lord may receive a kingdom, which cannot be moved, Hebrews 12:28, and partake of those new heavens and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2 Peter 3:13, even that world to come, as these days of the gospel are called, Hebrews 2:5. See Trapp on " Heb 2:6 " See Trapp on " Heb 2:7 "