God Will Shake Banks, Businesses and Governments

The prophecy that God was going to shake all things that can be shaken. Nothing that can be shaken will eventually be left unshaken.

Now, let’s ask ourselves for a little while, what are some of the things that can be shaken? Because if they can be shaken, they will be shaken.

I’d like to turn, first of all, to the famous parable of the two different houses, one built on sand and the other built on the rock. The version that’s given in Luke chapter 6, verses 47 through 49.

“Whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”

Notice there’s no difference to the tests to which each house was subjected. Each of them was subjected to the storm. Don’t imagine that being a believer will give you a storm-free passage through life. If anything, rather the opposite.

There’s a kind of presentation of truth today which is only half truth, which is if you come to the Lord and get saved, everything will go well, you’ll never have any problems, et cetera. Most of us know by experience, if not by scripture, that that isn’t true.

There was only one difference. It was not in what the houses went through. It was that one was built on a solid foundation, a rock. The other was not. And Jesus said, building on the rock is very simple. It’s hearing what he says and doing it.

And I believe that is the only foundation that will give us a building that cannot be shaken. Anything that is not built on the hearing and doing of the teaching of Jesus will be shaken.

Then let’s think about institutions. Any institution that is not founded on the teaching of Jesus can be shaken. Banks can be shaken. Do you believe that?

Believe me, in America, we are seeing the shaking of the banks. That’s, I’m not going to go into that, but it’s just, I believe, a fact. I believe that whole nation is going to be shaken.

Then businesses can be shaken. There are many businesses in this country and other countries closing down, going bankrupt. Governments can be shaken. We saw that in what was used to be the Soviet Union. The whole of that government collapsed like a house of cards.

We need to be, take note of these things because we tend to look to some of these institutions for stability. We tend to look to big corporations and firms and think, “Well, they’ve got it made.” But they don’t have.

There’s another kind of institution which also can be shaken, and that is religious institutions. They have no guarantee of stability whatever, unless they’re built on the teaching of Jesus.

I believe many, many so-called Christian institutions are going to be thrown down in the shaking that’s ahead. I would say to you, don’t look to a bank, don’t look to a business, don’t look to a government, and don’t look to a religious institution for security, because they cannot provide it. They are all amongst the things which will be shaken.