Shaking The Nations

The shaking of the natural world with heatwaves, droughts, storms and plagues

drought uk Over the years I have repeatedly felt led to refer to a striking prophecy recounted in the short Old Testament book of Haggai, predicting that very soon God would initiate a great shaking of the nations and the world of nature (Haggai 2: 6-7).

That prophecy is repeated in the New Testament in Hebrews 12. It foretells a time coming when God will intervene in world history and shake all things of human creation, leaving only those things that are of eternal value in terms of the kingdom of God upon earth.

Hebrews 12 includes an explanation linking it to the coming kingdom of God which makes it of great significance. As far as I am aware this is the only Old Testament prophecy to be repeated in the New Testament, thereby being unfulfilled at the end of the apostolic age because Hebrews was one of the last books to be written.

The Unique Value of Hebrews

Hebrews is a book of immense spiritual depth and scholars recognise it as the most beautiful Greek prose in the New Testament. It was probably written around 85 or 90 A.D. some 30 years after the death of Paul – it certainly was not written by him.

Nobody knows who wrote it but some biblical scholars (including myself) believe that Hebrews was written by Priscilla, although clearly someone has added a little epilogue of three or four verses at the end to make it look as though it was written by Paul. But the entire style of the Greek text is totally different from anything that Paul wrote.

Hebrews 12 foretells a time coming when God will intervene in world history and shake all things of human creation, leaving only those things that are of eternal value in terms of the kingdom of God upon earth.

It is quite likely that Hebrews 13:18 is a reference to Aquila and Priscilla being forced to leave Rome due to the edict of Claudius in 49 A.D. driving all Jews out of Rome as referred to in Acts 18:2.

Acts 18 and 19 show that Paul spent considerable time with Priscilla and Aquila, and Paul even acknowledges that they actually saved his life (Rom 16:3). Of course, we cannot know for certain that Priscilla wrote Hebrews but I believe there is good evidence that it came from the pen of Aquila and Priscilla. She was undoubtedly the leading teacher and they were hoping to return to their home in Rome as referred to in Hebrews 13:18.

This would make Hebrews the only book in the New Testament to be written by a woman – which is probably another reason why a later (male!) editor added the last three or four verses to make it acceptable to men!

International Gathering

Returning to the prophecy contained in Haggai 2, in 1986, an international gathering of 150 Christian leaders with prophetic ministries met on Mount Carmel in Israel for a week to seek the word of the Lord on what was happening in the world today. We were led to the Haggai prophecy referred to above stating that very soon God would initiate a great shaking of the nations and the world of nature.

In so doing God will shake the whole natural world of creation with heatwaves, droughts, storms, and plagues of old and new diseases.

It will not be long before there will come upon the world a time of unparalleled upheavals and turmoil. Do not fear for it is I the Lord who am shaking all things.

This was prophesied at Mount Carmel in 1986 and is beginning to be fulfilled today, as we can see every day on our television news and in our newspapers.

Prophecy

During the conference on Mount Carmel, Lance Lambert received a word that we all agreed summarised what we were hearing from God. The first paragraph was:

“It will not be long before there will come upon the world a time of unparalleled upheavals and turmoil. Do not fear for it is I the Lord who am shaking all things. I began this shaking with the First World War and I greatly increased it through the Second World War…It will not only be by war and civil war, by anarchy and terrorism, and by monetary collapses that I will judge the nations, but also by natural disasters; by earthquakes, by shortages and famines, and by old and new plague diseases. I will also judge them by giving them over to their own ways, to lawlessness, to loveless selfishness, to delusions and to believing a lie, to false religion and an apostate church, even to a Christianity without me.”

Wildfires and Drought

During this summer we have seen most of Europe suffering from wildfires due to extreme heat. In Britain the heat has caused premature harvest and most fields of wheat had been harvested by the end of July – some two months early. The grass has not grown so the cattle have been fed with winter feed, leaving farmers afraid for what they will do in the winter months. The lack of rain in many parts of Britain and Europe has brought drought and severe water shortage to many households.

Is there no prophetic voice in the Church today?

Silent Church

What have we heard from church leaders in Britain? – Nothing! Why is there no word from the Lord from His Church? Why has the Archbishop, and all the other bishops remained silent? Is there no prophetic voice in the Church today?

Warning to Humanity

If the things that we are seeing today had happened in biblical times, the prophets would be declaring the word of God to the people. But God expects His Church to be the prophet to the nation.

God is clearly warning humanity of great danger that lies ahead. The direction of human activity and modern technology will lead to ultimate disaster for the world unless there is a change of direction. In a world of unstable nations armed with weapons of mass destruction, they could destroy all life upon earth – God’s precious creation.

Through the shaking of the natural creation God is warning us of great danger and calling humanity to change direction in order to save the planet. The situation is so serious that God is acting to save His creation. This is what we are seeing today. Surely, this is the time when church leaders should be declaring the word of the Lord to the nations.

Rev Dr Clifford Hill (MA. BD. PhD)

Rev Dr Clifford Hill (MA. BD. PhD), 26/08/2026

Feedback:

	Michael Petek	27/08/2026 21:31
Thank you, Nick. The significance of 2,400 is that 240 is the gematria value of the consonants that make the name Amalek, the genocidal enemy of Israel. The number 10 signifies divine order and completion.
	Nick Thompson	27/08/2026 20:58
Good evening Michael, I am intrigued with your dating, and would agree with the Esther timing. Would really like to follow it up with you. My email is npdthompson1@gmail.com if you would be willing to engage. God Bless you. Nick
	Michael Petek	27/08/2026 16:37
I have been preoccupied with Haggai chapter 2 as well, but I would relate it to Hebrews 12 like this. The only occasion on which the prophecy at Haggai 2 - that the Lord would fill this house (the Second Temple) could have been fulfilled is the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple where the invisible glory of the Lord was revealed in the prophecy of Simeon to Mary in proportion to her faith. When the power of the Lord overshadowed Mary a first time, the effect was to give life in the Incarnation of God the Son. But on this second time, it had a life-giving effect which was not to be revealed until our time - as though cause and effect were separated in time by nineteen centuries. The liturgical feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple falls forty days after Christmas on 2 February. In 1917 it fell nine months to the day before 2 November, the date of the Balfour Declaration. About thirty years later, on 14 May 1948, the State of Israel declared independence. Abraham was born 1,948 years after the creation of Adam, and he received the promise of the land of Canaan for his offspring at the age of 75. As many years from 1948 takes us to 2023, the year of the 7 October massacre. To refer back to the year 1917, we find that the years 1917 to 1927 are the 2,400th anniversary decade of the events in the story of Esther. In particular, Adolf Hitler published the second volume of Mein Kampf in 1926, the 2,400th anniversary year of Haman's decree for the extermination of the Jews. The period of nine months from 2 February to 2 November 1917 suggests that Jesus has done a great thing for Mary - He has made her in very truth the Mother of Israel - of the nation as such - in preparation for the final salvation of Israel, the ending of the exile, and the restoration of Israel's political independence. When God does a great thing for Mary, Satan acts as the narcissistic toddler he is. He vents all his rage against her, and the effect of that we can see is the raising up - after the manner of King Herod - of the Nazi movement, which held its first public meeting on 24 February 1920, and of Soviet Russia, which legalised abortion on 18 November. A one-two punch, one aimed at the destruction of the Jews, the other at the massacre of the innocents. So, there is the shaking we read of at Hebrews 12.