I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah 4:24 portrays the earth in upheaval, with the mountains trembling and the hills shifting and moving lightly. That shaking is part of widespread desolation and destruction that lays the world waste in a scene of worldwide desolation. In that laying waste the mountains are moved out of their places, and the landscape is left broken and wilderness-like.
The desolation belongs to the scenes of trouble that will precede Christ's second coming, with convulsions and earthquakes accompanying the day of the Lord just before His coming. While the saints are preserved through that shaking, the earth is left desolate. It is connected with the coming final crisis, when the restrained winds of strife are released and the earth is struck by overwhelming destruction.
The upheaval is part of a time of great distress that brings human pride low, identified with Jacob's trouble, from which God's people will be saved. It describes the earth's future desolation after Christ's second coming and the destruction of the wicked, when the earth is brought back at least partly to a state of chaos, confusion and darkness during the thousand years. During those thousand years the desolated earth is Satan's place of confinement, where he has no one left to deceive and sees the effects of his rebellion and the curse he caused.
Jeremiah 4:24 portrays the earth in upheaval, with the mountains trembling and the hills shifting and moving lightly. That shaking is part of widespread desolation and destruction that lays the world waste in a scene of worldwide desolation. In that laying waste the mountains are moved out of their places, and the landscape is left broken and wilderness-like.
The desolation belongs to the scenes of trouble that will precede Christ's second coming, with convulsions and earthquakes accompanying the day of the Lord just before His coming. While the saints are preserved through that shaking, the earth is left desolate. It is connected with the coming final crisis, when the restrained winds of strife are released and the earth is struck by overwhelming destruction.
The upheaval is part of a time of great distress that brings human pride low, identified with Jacob's trouble, from which God's people will be saved. It describes the earth's future desolation after Christ's second coming and the destruction of the wicked, when the earth is brought back at least partly to a state of chaos, confusion and darkness during the thousand years. During those thousand years the desolated earth is Satan's place of confinement, where he has no one left to deceive and sees the effects of his rebellion and the curse he caused.