The Advent of the Lord Ushered in Amidst the Shaking of the Nations
Haggai 2:6-7
For thus said the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea…


Though heaven be God's throne, and earth His footstool, and all space His temple, yet, in condescension to human weakness, He who fills immensity deigns' to manifest Himself in a temple built by human hands.

I. A GREAT PERSON, THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, SHALL COME. There was no human probability that this part of the prophecy would be fulfilled. Who is the desired object It can be none other than the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Christ may literally be said to be the desire of all nations, inasmuch as He was the object of their earnest expectation: because to all He was and is most desirable. That the promise of His coming to the temple was fulfilled, see the records of our Lord's visits to the temple, as given in the Gospels.

II. THE PREPARATION FOR CHRIST'S COMING. "I will shake all nations." God bids us look for the precursors of His Son in the shakings of nations. This was prophetical, and has been exactly fulfilled. When God is about to introduce any great improvement into His Church, any era of light and enlargement, He generally precedes it by one of trouble and commotion. This often removes serious obstacles to the establishment and welfare of the Redeemer's Church.

III. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COMING OF THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. "I will fill this house with glory." This is prophetical. Any one who had seen the temple of Solomon, would hesitate in believing that anything could surpass its glory. Christ now comes to His Church in remarkable dispensations of providence. As part of the Church visible, we have a great deal to do for Christ, in endeavouring, both at home and abroad, to prepare the temple for the advent of the Lord.

(J. G. Lorimer.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

WEB: For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;




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