Hebrews 12:25-27 See that you refuse not him that speaks. 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 speaks from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he had promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signified the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
‘See’ [Greek: blepo] take heed; beware that you refuse not Christ who speaks from heaven (12:24-25; 1:1-2).
‘Turn away’ [Greek: apostrepho] means to turn back; to turn oneself away. Translated as “turn away from” (12:25; Matt. 5:42; Acts 3:26; Rom. 11:26; 2Tim. 1:15; 4:4; Tit. 1:14); “pervert” (Luke 23:14); “put up again” (Matt. 26:52); and “bring again” (Matt. 27:3). If there is no escape when one does this, then how could such a person be saved?
‘Whose voice then shook the earth.’ This indicates that it was the voice of God that spoke the law on Sinai (1:1-2).
‘Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.’ This is the 27th and last Old Testament prophecy in Hebrews (12:26; Hag. 2:6) and it is unfulfilled. Four earthquakes will happen during the future 7-year tribulation: Under the 6th seal in the first 3½ years of the 70th week (Rev. 6:12). Between the 7th seal and the first trumpet in the first 3½ years (Rev. 8:5). Under the 7th trumpet in the middle of the week (Rev. 11:19). Under the 7th vial at the end of the week (Rev. 11:13; 16:19; Zech. 14:4-8).
To be continued…
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