Hebrews 12:28

"This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain."

Key Reflection

In Hebrews 12:27, the phrase "Yet once more" indicates a future divine intervention where unstable and temporal elements will be removed, allowing for the permanence of what is truly enduring in God's kingdom. This shaking signifies the purification and renewal that precedes the establishment of something unshakable and eternal.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved. We who are Christians. We pertain to a kingdom that is permanent and unchanging. The meaning is, that the kingdom of the Redeemer is never to pass away. It is not, like the Jewish dispensation, to give place to another, nor is there any power that can destroy it. See Barnes "Mt 16:18". It has now endured for eighteen hundred years, amidst all the revolutions on earth, and in spite of all the attempts which have been made to destroy it; and it is now as vigorous and stable as it ever was.

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