Which shaketh the earth out of her place
Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be
utterly broken down, clean dissolved, and reel to and fro like a
drunkard, and be removed as a cottage, and which John in a vision
saw flee away from the presence of him that sat upon the throne,
( Isaiah
24:19 Isaiah 24:20
) ( Revelation
20:11 ) ; for this cannot be understood of earthquakes in
common, which are only partial, and do not remove the earth out
of its place, only shake some parts of it; and this may also
refer to the time of the flood, when the earth received some
change and alteration in its situation, as Mr. Burnet in his
Theory of the Earth observes; and the Apostle Peter suggests
something of this kind, when he distinguishes the present earth
from the former, which he says stood out of the water and in it,
but the present earth not so, but is reserved for fire, (
2 Peter
3:5-7 ) ;
and the pillars thereof tremble;
the centre or lower parts of it, see ( Psalms 75:3 ) .