"The Heaven and Earth" = the temple at Jerusalem (from Haggai 2)

Dear in Christ,

The LORD instructed Haggai to ask the leaders and people of Israel:

Hag 2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 

This scripture alludes to the temple that was built by Solomon and destroyed by Babylon.

(The next two verses are words of encouragement for carrying on with the reconstruction that was then in progress.)

Now, get the power of the sixth verse:

Hag 2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; YET ONCE ("once again" in other versions), it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

The statement "Once again I will shake the heavens, earth and the sea" implies that the LORD has done it previously! From the context it is abundantly clear that the allusion is to the destruction of the temple at the hands of the king and army of Babylon.

Now, while it is told that the LORD would shake the heavens, earth and the sea, ONCE AGAIN, it becomes abundantly clear that the talk is about repeating what was done previously. This repetition came to pass in 70 AD, when the temple at Jerusalem was destroyed.

In Christ,

Tomsan Kattackal