Hebrews 12:27 is a favorite verse of theirs, as an example. They rightly see what God sees in this passage, a shaking such as the world has never seen. In dominion thinking, God is even now shaking this and shaking that, and by the time He is done shaking, the only thing remaining will be the Kingdom, whose citizens will present to Jesus a flawless place to live upon His return at the end of the age.

We used to call this a-Millennial. In other words, the whole idea of 1,000 years tacked on to the end of this present age is merely symbolic and figurative. It is the here and now we must fix, and fix it we will, in time for His coming. To this end, things are going to get better and better and...

Whoa there, folks! It ain't necessarily so. You've overlooked two seriously important words in Hebrews, words quoted from the prophet Haggai, and thus even more important. The words are, "Once more."

Once more. Meaning, He did something like this before. Look back in the chapter. He's talking about the shaking at Sinai! The awful scene that transpired at the giving of the Ten Commandments! Exodus 19:18 declares that the mountain quaked. Moses was afraid. The people were terrified. This stuck in their memory!

But we've come to something even greater. And for these many centuries we have proclaimed it to Jew and Gentile alike. The crucified and risen Christ. A New Covenant. A Kingdom where Jesus will rule all. And from Jew and gentile alike there has been almost unanimous rejection.

So, one day, one awful day, God will shake again. The earth. The mountains. The heavens. You name it, it will shake. Now there have been a huge number of earthquakes since then, and yes it can be argued that they are more intense today. But God is not talking about the worsening of natural phenomena. He's talking about "once more" doing, but on a grander scale, what He did before.

And that once more will usher in the Kingdom of God in its fullness. II Peter 3 spells out so very clearly: "The day of the Lord (not the years leading up to the coming of the Lord) will come as a thief in the night (not as a series of e-mails over a period of a decade) in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements (of the earth) will melt with fervent heat (sounds like a shaking to me) and the works that are in it will be burned up...nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth."

Two very clear promises will happen in one day. The end of this present world and the beginning of the new one. This is not a process, this is a total one-day immediate shaking. Your 7.9 earthquake will seem like nothing in that day. Your tsunami will seem like a child playing in that day. And your kingdom-now philosophy will fade like the dew in the light of the King and His Kingdom ruling from a mountain in Jerusalem.

I dare Kingdom-now dominion people to read with uncluttered mind the 2nd chapter of Isaiah, and tell me that they still do not believe in a coming Kingdom that far outstrips their greatest fantasies for today.