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For this is what Yahweh of Hosts 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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A World-Shaking Promise
God promises to "shake the heavens and the earth." Commentators explain this has multiple layers of fulfillment: the political upheavals of empires before Christ, the supernatural events surrounding His birth and death, and most significantly, the monumental shift from the Old Covenant to the New. This prophecy points to a complete reordering of the world centered on Jesus's coming.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yet once, it is a little while - This, the rendering of Paul to the Hebrews, is the only grammatical one. “Yet once.” By t…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet once, it is a little while. —The construction is very difficult. The best rendering appears to be, Yet one season…
Baptist
According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you: fear not.
For thus…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet expresses more clearly, and confirms more fully, what I have said—that God would in time bring help to the miserable Jews, because…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For thus says the Lord of hosts; etc.] For the further encouragement of the builders of the temple, they are told, from t…
Those who are wholehearted in the Lord's service will receive encouragement to proceed. But they could not build such a temple then, as Solomon bui…
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