11. Now being about to raise from the dead holy Zerubbabel He says, _Yet once, it is a little while, I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land_. Once before he had shaken these things when He delivered his people from Egypt, when there was in heaven a pillar of fire, dry land among the waves, a wall in the sea, a path in the waters, when in the desert a daily supply of heavenly food was produced, and the rock was melted into streams of water. But He shook them also afterwards in the Passion of the Lord Jesus, when the heaven was covered with darkness, the sun withdrew his light, the rocks were rent, the tombs opened, the dead raised, the Dragon, vanquished on his own waves, saw the fishers of men not only sailing, but even walking on the sea without danger. Sidenote: Ps. xix. 4. Sidenote: Is. liv. 1. Sidenote: Ib. xxxv. 1. Sidenote: Rom. xi. 5. 12. The _dry land was also shaken_ when the barren Gentile nations began to ripen with the harvest of devotion and faith, and the desert and the Gentiles were so much shaken, that the preaching of the Apostles, whom He sent to call the Gentiles, was so loud and vehement, that _their sound went out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world_. So greatly, indeed, was the desert shaken that _more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife_, and _the desert blossomed as a rose_, the elect of the Gentiles entered in to the remnant of the people, that the _remnant might be saved according to the election of grace_. Sidenote: Hag. ii. 7, 8. Sidenote: Ps. xii. 7. 13. _And I will fill_, it is said, _this house with My silver and gold_, with the heavenly oracles, which are as _silver tried in the fire_, and in the brightness of the true light, glistening like spiritual gold in the secret hearts of the saints. These riches He confers on His Church, riches whereby spiritual treasures are increased, and the glory of the house is exalted above the former glory which the elect people enjoyed. Sidenote: Phil. iv. 7. Sidenote: S. Matt. xxiv. 35. Sidenote: Heb. iv. 12. Sidenote: Zech. ix. 10.