Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Then shook - when He gave the law.
Now - under the Gospel.
Promised. His coming to break up the present order of things is to the ungodly a terror, to the godly a Promised. His coming to break up the present order of things is to the ungodly a terror, to the godly a promise, the fulfillment of which they look for with joyful hope.
Yet once more - Notes, Haggai 2:6; Haggai 2:21-22, both which passages are condensed into one here. The shaking began at His first coming: it will be completed at His second coming, prodigies in nature accompanying the overthrow of all kingdoms that oppose the Messiah. [`owd 'achat ma`at hiy'] 'It is yet one little' - i:e., a single brief space until the series of movements begins, ending in Messiah's advent. Not merely the earth, as at the Sinaitic covenant, but heaven also, is to be shaken. The two advents of the Messiah are regarded as one, the complete shaking belonging to the second, of which the presage was given in the shakings at the first; the convulsions connected with the overthrow of Jerusalem shadowing forth those about to be at the overthrow of all the God-opposed kingdoms by the coming Messiah.