Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 12:26

26 Whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

The Sin and Punishment of Gospel-despisers and rejecters, is aggravated by the Person concerned in both. It is that Jesus, the great Angel of the Covenant, speaking now by his Blood, whose Voice at the delivery of the Law on Mount Sinai, and selling Israel in a Church-State under that Covenant-Dispensation, Exod. 20.1, 19. Deut. 4.12. and 5.2, 4, 22. did shake the Mount, Exod. 19.18. Psalm 68.7, 8. and 114.4, 7. and not only the literal Sinai, but that low, earthy condition, and state of Israel coming out of Egypt, and bearing its reproach as a common People of the Earth, together with other Nations, Iosh. 5.9. This he removed away, and brought them then into a Church-state with himself by Covenant, which Church-state obtained the name or title of Heaven, Math. 21.43. and is by the Prophet stiled the Old Heaven, Isa. 65.17. which was to be shaken and removed also.

But now the same Jesus so shaking them, had promised, and had at this time in part fulfilled what he spake, Hag. 2.6, 7. even after the Prophet's little while was expired, and Christ the desire of all Nations was come; that yet once more, he would shake the Israelitish Church-state, pitched till the time of Reformation; not the earthy one only, as he did at Mount Sinai, which yet Jesus literally did at his Death and Resurrection, Matth. 27.51, 54. and 28.2 and the Heavens also by his Star, Matth. 2.2. Light to the Shepherds, Luke 2.9. His Baptism, Matth. 3.17. Transfiguration, Matth. 17.5. His Prayer, Iohn 12.28, 29, 30. His Passion, Matth. 27.51. Luke 23.44, 45. Effusion of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2.2, 3, 4. But this is also a powerful, moral shaking, so as to change and remove that Heavenly Church-frame pitched in the Iewish Tabernacle; that he might pitch a Tabernacle himself more Heavenly and Spiritual, whereof Jesus should be the Lord High-Priest and Ruler, as well as Minister, chap. 3.1, 2.

Marginal references: Hag. 2.6.