Haggia : Is there great shaking coming near future ??.

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When does this great shaking happen? We know antichrist will be here 6th trump. Those with seal of God wont worship antichrist. What does it mean when this great shaking happens not to far down the road. Does it have anything to do with Jesus??. Haggia 2:6. For thus says 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 ground.
 
I think you misunderstood what Haggai is saying. The great shaking has nothing to do with the earthquake that happens in Syria and Turkey (God bless the poor souls who are suffering the aftermath of the catastrophic disaster). It means that in the future, the second coming of Jesus will change the world order so much that nations will no longer rebel against God, but rather serve God with all their strength--making God the apple of their eye (if I may borrow an English idiom). Jesus will bring a temple in Jerusalem in the Millennial Kingdom, and it will be the largest temple that anyone has seen to commemorate Jesus Christ's Victory against all unbelievers (who are in Hell for their unrepentance sins) and over all believers (redeemed because they put their faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of all sin).

The excerpt below: https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/haggai-2/

Why the rebuilt temple will be more glorious than the temple of Solomon.​

For thus says the LORD of hosts: “Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,” says the LORD of hosts. “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,” says the LORD of hosts. “The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,” says the LORD of hosts. “And in this place I will give peace,” says the LORD of hosts.

a. Once more…I will shake heaven and earth: This is the only portion of Haggai quoted in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:26). It announces God’s intention to shake the present order in His coming day of judgment.

b. They shall come to the Desire of All Nations: Many ancient commentators see this as a prophecy of the Messiah coming to this temple rebuilt in the days of Haggai and Ezra. This understanding began with the ancient rabbis and continued among Christians, and fits in well with the promise of filling the temple with glory.

i. Some commentators point out that this word for Desire can also be translated treasures. We know that the Gentiles will bring tribute to the LORD in the millennium (Isaiah 60:5) – but that won’t bring treasure to this temple that was rebuilt in the days of Ezra and Haggai.

ii. The true Desire of All Nations is Jesus, even if the nations themselves do not know it. “He is the one, the true Reformer, the true rectifier of all wrong, and in this respect the desire of all nations. Oh! if the world could gather up all her right desire; if she could condense in one cry all her wild wishes; if all true lovers of mankind could condense their theories and extract the true wine of wisdom from them; it would just come to this, we want an Incarnate God, and you have got the Incarnate God! Oh! Nations, but ye know it not! Ye, in the dark, are groping after him, and know not that he is there” (Spurgeon).

iii. Knowing that Jesus is the Desire of All Nations also encourages our missionary work. “Brethren, I may add, Christ is certainly the desire of all nations in this respect, that we desire him for all nations. Oh! That the world were encompassed in his gospel! Would God the sacred fire would run along the ground, that the little handful of corn on the top of the mountains would soon make its fruit to shake like Lebanon. Oh! When will it come, when will it come that all the nations shall know him? Let us pray for it: let us labour for it.” (Spurgeon)

c. “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,” says the LORD of hosts: They didn’t need to be discouraged if they didn’t have money for the building project. They had to boldly trust the God who owned every resource, and then give generously.

i. When we really trust God, we will give generously. Hudson Taylor, the groundbreaking missionary to the interior regions of China in the second half of the nineteenth century, experienced this principle early in his life. As a young man he preached in boarding houses in the poor slums of London. A poor man asked Taylor to come back to his room and pray for his wife who suffered complications from childbirth and was near death. The man had no money at all, and couldn’t afford to pay a priest to come and perform the last rites. Taylor went to the man’s room and found the heartbreaking situation – several children, the afflicted mother and a three-day-old baby living in absolute filth and squalor, with absolutely no food or money. Taylor knew he had (something like) a $20 coin in his pocket that would meet their needs, but it was all the money he had in the world himself. He began to speak to the family about God when the Lord spoke to his own heart: “You hypocrite! Telling these unconverted people about a kind and loving Father in heaven, and not prepared yourself to trust Him without your $20.” Taylor wished that he had two $10 pieces, and he would gladly have given them one – but all he had was one $20 coin. He was taken aback, but decided to lead the family in the Lord’s Prayer. As soon as he said the words “Our Father,” the Lord convicted him of his hypocrisy again. He struggled through the prayer under tremendous conviction and then gave the father the $20 piece. That provision saved the life of the mother and rescued the family.

ii. The lesson is plain. Knowing God provides should make us more generous, instead of less generous (“I don’t have to give to their need, because God will provide for them some other way”).

d. The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former: The glory of this temple was in fact greater. First, Herod remodeled this second temple into something greater than Solomon’s temple. Second, the LORD of Glory – Jesus – personally visited it and worshipped there. That alone made it greater.

i. “Because Christ shall appear and preach in it, who is the brightness of his Father’s glory.” (Trapp)

ii. Some scholars speculate that Herod remodeled the temple with the intent of fulfilling the glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former, so that he might fulfill it instead of the Messiah.

e. And in this place I will give peace: The promised peace is shalom. It means far more than stopping conflict – it is the establishment of a lasting, righteous, order.
 
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