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The Coming Cosmic Shakedown....

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The Coming Cosmic Shakedown

By Lambert Dolphin

This paper examines briefly a great and final simultaneous judgment of human rulers and angelic powers which the Bible says will take place immediately prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.

Background: The universe consists of a physical, material world which is surrounded by and embedded in an invisible spiritual world. The spiritual realm is real, permanent, and more "substantial" than the material realm. God, who is Spirit, dwells in the heavenly places as do innumerable angels--fallen and unfallen. Of the fallen angels the former Prime Minister in the angelic realm, Satan, is called "the god of this world" (age) because by and large he controls society. Under him are at least four orders of mighty angels cryptically described as "the principalities (arche), powers, (exousia), thrones (thronoi), dominions (kuriotes), and powers (dunamis), in the heavenly places." (See God and His Angels).

"Heaven" is not "up" above the stars, beyond the reaches of space. The material world is embedded in the spiritual--and the physical world is sustained by this unseen world. The heavenly places surround us. We are therefore influenced by, buffeted by, the angelic conflicts going on around us in this invisible part of reality. We are in fact enlisted to join in this warfare on God's side. The war involves good and fallen angels, and the weapons given to believers are said to be powerful and effectual in this arena of battle. In the Bible angels can be seen to have dominion over nations, over cities, over kingdoms. (See Robert C. Linthicum, City of God, City of Satan, 1991 Zondervan, Grand Rapids). Angels have an important role in God's government of the forces of nature in this present age (Hebrews 2:5). (For example, when Jesus calmed the sea of Galilee, I believe he spoke to an angel).

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

What the Bible calls "the times of the gentiles" is a long period of time during which God's chosen and model nation Israel is eclipsed--and even put on hold--while the Lord deals with the non-Jewish (Gentile) powers of the world system. This time period began with the Babylonian captivity of Israel at the time of the destruction of the First Temple on the 9th of Av, 586 BC. The "time of the gentiles" will end with the last and final invasion of Jerusalem by foreign armies (described in Zechariah 14:1-3), culminating in the return of Israel's Messiah, Yeshua, to the Mount of Olives. Jesus delineates the "times of the gentiles" in Luke's account of the Olivet Discourse,

For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people (Israel); they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:23-24)

Nebuchadnezzar's dream, interpreted by Daniel the prophet, predicted that four and only four great world powers would dominate the world from that Day until Messiah returned........


The fourth kingdom, [Rome] strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these. And as you saw the feet and toes [the Roman empire revived] partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever; just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, [Yeshua is the Smiting Stone] and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." (Daniel 2:31-45)

For purposes of this discussion, the important part of this vision is how it ends. The coming kingdom of God on earth will not take the best of existing world civilizations with their laws, culture, religion and economic system. It will not be a "new world order" build on the foundations of the past. It will be a totally new form of government which will destroy and completely supplant all of nations and governments then in existence when Christ returns. The entire image Nebuchadnezzar saw is to be smashed to pieces by the arrival of the kingdom of God on earth.

What the passage from Daniel suggests is that no form of human government, no world religion, no system of trade and commerce--comes anywhere close to God's standards for government. Centuries of change have not meant progress and evolution toward better government and a better world, but an inexorable decline in public morals, conduct and affairs down through history.

When Jesus Christ returns to this planet it will in order to set up an entirely new world-government. Nothing of the old, nothing taken out from the Gentile nations, will remain.

Obviously such a total shakeup will not involve a reshuffling of existing human leaders--nor mere reform of national governments, but the removal of all existing rulers and a total replacement of the entire system of government and all the infrastructure of society as well.

The commencement of this new system of world wide government under Messiah is announced in Revelation Chapter 19,

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed which no one knows but himself. He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses. From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords. (19:11-16)

But the overthrow of the governments on the earth in the time of the end will also be accompanied by a simultaneous overthrow of all the ruling angelic powers who are behind the scenes orchestrating world events.

The Shaking of the Powers of Heaven

There are many references to this shaking of the powers of heaven at the time of the Second Coming of Messiah. (See also Note 1) Isaiah says this:

Behold, the LORD will lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth. The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left. The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled. No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that none can enter. There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished. Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins. For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the vintage is done. They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west. Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treacherous deal very treacherously." Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth! He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again. On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth. They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished. Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders he will manifest his glory. (Isaiah 24)

Has anything like this ever happened before on our planet? Yes, The great Flood in Noah's time was a disaster destroying billions of people and leaving only eight human survivors. At the time of the Flood one group of evil angels was removed from their posts in the spiritual realm and chained in a place called "Tartarus"--because of their intermarriage with human women which led to a race of demi-gods, giants known as the "Nephilim" ("fallen ones'). The removal of this group of evil angels is recorded in Jude, (see also 2 Peter 2:4) [For further details see Notes on the Nephilim: The Giants of Old].

And the angels that did not keep their own position (before the Flood) but left their proper dwelling (in the heavenlies) have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, (as did this group of angels) serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

The existence of a second group of giants after the Flood who were the offspring of human women and fallen angels (Goliath was one of these) indicates that not all the guilty fallen angels were chained at the time of the Flood--or that further rebellions by certain angels took place after the Flood. These angels have not yet been judged. They are still actively working their mischief against our race.

In his second Epistle, Chapter 3, the Apostle Peter strongly suggests that God's judgment at the time of the Flood included much more than the destruction of human life and habitat. Nature was profoundly disturbed and the climate was changed forever. Earth's original one continent split apart and the pieces rapidly separated. The previously mild and uniform climate was replaced by the intense contrasts of seasons. Storms and violent events previously unknown in the Antediluvian world were now commonplace and large regions of the globe became uninhabitable for all practical purposes. It is not behind reason that one or more fundamental discontinuities in the "laws of physics" occurred at this time--this is suggested by the Apostle's strong warning against viewing the earth's past history through the magic spectacles of uniformitarianism.

The prophet Haggai spoke of and event at the time of the end that would involve a shaking of both the heavens and the earth:

For thus says the LORD of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, so that the (one) desire(d) of all nations shall come in, [most scholars take this as a reference to the Messiah] and I will fill this house with splendor, says the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts. The latter splendor of this house [the temple] shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the LORD of hosts.'" (Haggai 2:6-9)

Isaiah (Chapter 34) equates this radical shaking of the heavens and the earth with the final overthrow of Edom:

Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter. Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed. The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat. For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch. Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles. They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing. Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place. There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate. Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it. (Isaiah 34)

(In the book "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done..." Ron Graff and I go into detail about the end time judgments from God that are scheduled to fall on Edom and Babylon at the close of the present age).

In the New Testament the writer of the letter to the Hebrews contrasts the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai with life under the New Covenant put into effect by the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Supper:

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned." Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear." But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel. See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven." This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:18-29)

Mount Sinai was shaken by earthquakes and frightening signs and sounds when the Law was given because the Law signified judgment. Believers who come to God for mercy under the terms of the New Covenant are welcomed into the company of the true believers of all ages. These men and women have come to a different mountain, to Mt. Zion, where the gates of the heavenly New Jerusalem are open to them.

The passage above warns all those who continue to refuse God's grace--there will be no place of safe refuge for them when God shakes for the last time both the heavens and the earth. What will be shaken and removed at the end of the age, according to this passage, are all the institutions and authorities, all powers and hierarchies, human and angelic. Everything which can be shaken to destruction will be, and what remains will be only the works which God Himself has built!



When Will This Happen?

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus says clearly that this great shaking of "the powers of the heaven" will immediately precede His second coming in glory:

"And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." And he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree, and all the trees; as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare; for it will come upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth. But watch at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man." And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet. And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. (Luke 21)


The Great Earthquake

There can be no doubt (according to the Bible) that severe world-wide earthquakes will break out during the approaching great tribulation period! Earthquakes as such are increasing at the present time. There will one gigantic world-wide major earthquake (or a series of great temblors) schedule for the very end of the age. These are mentioned in the book of the Revelation during the same time period when "the sun will be darkened and the full moon become like blood," and when the "stars will fall from heaven."

That final earthquake is evidently the event on earth which coincides with the casting down and imprisonment of all the fallen angels described above. Isaiah predicted this event associating it with the Lord standing to "terrify" the earth:

"And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth." (Isaiah 2:19-21)

A great earthquake in Israel is associated with the invasion of the land by the armies of Gog and Magog and is described in Ezekiel. This invasion from the North occurs during the tribulation period. Some Bible commentators believe this invasion occurs during the first half of the seven-year tribulation period, however I believe (as did my mentor Ray C. Stedman) that this massive earthquake is the anchor point that places this Northern invasion as one facet of the general campaign of Armageddon.

"For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. I will summon every kind of terror against Gog, says the Lord GOD; every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone. So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 38:19-23)

There are four specific mentions of violent earthquakes in the book of the Revelation. For the moment let us consider the possibility that we are given in Revelation a description of but one earthquake at the very end of the tribulation when Christ returns. Ray Stedman has suggested that this single earthquake forms an anchor point marking the end of what is a series of parallel judgments. (See God's Final Word, Understanding Revelation).

A prelude to the First Earthquake:

From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. (Rev 4:5-6a)

Ray Stedman comments on this passage as follows:

Let us remember these are symbols. What they represent does not always appear like this. These are pictures, a manifestation of what actually is there. The symbols here are very instructive.

First, John says, "from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder." These are the sights and sounds associated with the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. The mountain was shaking constantly with great rumblings and thunders, it was covered by dark clouds lit by lightning flashes. It was so awesome a sight that the people of Israel were stunned with fear. These sounds are a symbol, therefore, of the judgments of God.

Revelation is basically the time when God at last turns from grace to judgment. All through the Bible he has been a gracious God, appealing to people to open their minds, seeking to instruct them anew, to make them stop and listen and adjust to the truth. But at last he must turn to judgment. That is what this book is all about: It tells us how God at last visits judgment