And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
This word, Yet once more - So Paul, by the Spirit, sanctions the Septuagint х eti (G2089) hapax (G530)] (Haggai 2:6), giving an additional feature to the Hebrew (English version), not merely that it shall be in a little while, but that it is to be "once more." The stress is on "ONCE." Once for all and forever. 'In saying "once more," the Spirit implies that something else shall be which is to remain, no more to be changed, for the once is inclusive - i:e., not many times' (Estius).
Those things that are shaken - heaven and earth. As the shaking is to be total, so shall the removal be, making way for the better things that are unremovable. Compare the Jewish economy (type of the present order of things) giving way to the new and abiding covenant, the forerunner of the everlasting state.
As of things that are made - namely, of this present visible creation (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:1 and Hebrews 9:11), 'made with hands ... of this creation' - i:e., things so made at creation that they would not remain of themselves. The new abiding heaven and earth are also made, but of a higher nature than material creation, and partaking of the divine nature of Him who is not made: so, as linked with the uncreated God, they are not of the same class as the things made. The things made in the former sense do not remain; the things of the new heaven and earth, like the uncreated God, "shall REMAIN before God" (Isaiah 66:22). The spirit, the seed of the new being, not only of the believer's soul, but also of the future body, is an uncreated and immortal principle.