Isaiah 24:20

Removed like a cottage. Literally, “shaken to and fro like a booth.” The “cottage” was a temporary structure where one might spend the night while watching the ripening grapes in a vineyard (see ch. 1:8). The Hebrew of ch. 24:19, 20 provides no basis for the conjecture that the earth will be moved out of its orbit during the great day of the Lord. The description here given refers to the earthquake at the return of Christ, which will no doubt be the most terrible convulsion the earth has ever known (see Rev. 16:18-20). The entire contour of the earth’s surface will then be changed. Mountains will be shaken from their foundations, islands will be moved out of their places, and the surface of the earth will heave and swell like the waves on a storm-tossed sea (see Ps. 46:2, 3, 6). The apostle Peter (2 Peter 3:7, 10-13) provides another vivid picture of the complete destruction that will overwhelm this present world, and out of the ruins of which the Lord will create “new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”