The Voice that Shook the Earth Hebrews 12:26

The Hebrew writer told his readers to “See that” they “refuse not him that speaks” because “if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not” he and his reader “escape”, “if” they “turn away from him that speaks from heaven”. In chapter twelve and verse twenty-six of Hebrews the writer shared how his readers how God's “voice then shook the earth” where we read:

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying,

Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

The verse begins, “Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised,...”. The writer began with the word, “Whose voice” which means “Whose sound and tone of uttered words” “then shook” which means “at that time agitated and caused to totter and shake” “the earth” which refers to “the arable land, ground, standing place, country, land enclosed with fixed boundaries, territory and region”: “but” which is a disassociation conjunction that means what is about to be written takes precedence over what was just stated “now he has promised” or “God has announced, professed, and asserted”. God's “uttered words agitated and caused the earth to shake”, however, he has now “professed and asserted” something new shall happen.

The verse continues, “...saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”. The writer added the word, “saying” or “speaking, affirming, maintaining, exhorting, advising and directing”, “Yet once more” which means “still, even, besides and further one time and for all” “I shake not” or “God does not quake, agitate or cause to tremble” “the earth only” which means “solely the arable land, ground, standing place, country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, territory or region”, “but” which is a disassociation conjunction that means what is about to be written takes precedence over what was just stated” “also heaven” which refers to “even the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings ”. God said that He would “agitate and cause” not only “the earth” but also “heaven” to “tremble and shake”.

When we think through these words in Hebrews, we see the power of the “voice of God”. Not only is God able to “shake the earth” with His “voice”, but He also can “shake the heavens”. This mighty power of God is not to be only admired, but must be honored and reverenced as well. Jesus Christ came to be the mediator between God and man, and although the voice of God is so powerful that it can “shake heaven and earth”, He still desires to speak to us. Jesus came to make that possible, and through the Holy Spirit we may hear His mighty voice today. Let us allow the “voice of God” to “shake” anything within us that may be in opposition to His righteous ways.

Next time the writer shares with his readers about how “those things which cannot be shaken may remain”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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