GOD WILL SHAKE YOUR ENEMIES

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. —Hebrews 12:25-26


The admonition, “See that you refuse not him that speaketh,” is the fundamental nature of the New Covenant. Whereas the Old Covenant was God’s manifest presence on Mount Sinai for forty days; the New Covenant is God’s manifest presence in the church forever. In the Old Covenant his word was etched in stone; in the New Covenant his living word is etched in our hearts. The old took place on earth; the new is taking place in heaven “But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering, (12:22.)

As a born again Christian, you must understand that you are in Christ and he is in you. By virtue of your union in him, you are a fellow citizen with the saints of God in heaven; you are seated with Christ in heavenly places; and according to our text, you have come to the heavenly Jerusalem to be a part of the
greatest church ever known. For those who have ears to hear, Jesus is right now proclaiming the glorious New Covenant as a mighty river of living water—it keeps flowing and flowing.

There can be no confusion as to what this word is: it is the Word of God as contained in the scriptures—that which is written. Hebrews 12:26 is a direct quotation of Haggai 2:6. The word that God speaks is eternal: that which he has said is what he is saying and what he will say tomorrow is the word he has said today. Nobody ever truly quotes the Lord: He speaks for himself! He has never needed a recording of his voice as in a message on a C.D.; His preaching is always a live event.

This manifest presence of the Lord brings a shaking to everything that is not rooted and grounded in him. The promised shaking is a direct result of his promised presence: “O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. Thou, O God, didst send (shake out—margin) a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor” (Psalms 68:7-10).

The word shook describes the action of horses shaking the ground amidst the pandemonium of battle. For those who are poor in spirit—those who know that of themselves they are nothing; God is arising and will send utter confusion to your enemies. For all of the enemies calculated schemes against you God is going to bring their expectation to nothing. In the enemies ears right now there is the sound of the armies of the Living God who is coming to perform and hasten his word: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end”
(Jeremiah 29:11).



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