Haggai 2:6-7 - Homiletics

The shaking of the heavens and the earth.

I. HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS .

1 . At Sinai, when Jehovah manifested himself to Israel ( Exodus 19:16-19 ; Psalms 68:7 , Psalms 68:8 ). Preparatory and prophetical.

2 . At the birth of Christ, when Jehovah appeared on earth in the Person of his Son ( Joel 2:30 , Joel 2:31 : Luke 2:8-14 ; Acts 2:19 , Acts 2:20 ). Furthering and fulfilling.

3 . At the end of time, when Jehovah will a third time appear, in the Person of the glorified Christ, to save his people and judge his foes ( Isaiah 24:19 , Isaiah 24:20 ; 2 Peter 3:10 ). Culminating and completing.

II. SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATIONS . According to the writer to the Hebrews, "This word, Once more, signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain" ( Hebrews 12:27 ). In other words, the object of each successive Divine interposition has been and will be the abrogation of institutions that have served their day, the correction of errors that have hindered the truth, the alteration of circumstances and conditions that are no longer suited to the new era about to be introduced.

1 . At Sinai were shaken and removed

while the things that could not be shaken and remained were

(3) the capacity for religion which no amount of oppression had been able utterly to destroy.

2 . At the birth of Christ were shaken and removed

while the unshakable things that remained were

3 . At the end of time will be shaken and removed

while as things that cannot be shaken, shall remain

Learn:

1 . That nations and individuals mostly advance by means of struggle and commotion.

2 . That peace and quietness may often mean stagnation and death rather than progress and life.

3 . That truth and right will eventually prevail over falsehood and wrong.