Revelation 6:14; Every Mountain and Island Move Out of their Place

Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

The fourth disturbance from above will affect the whole expanse of heaven as man sees it. Heaven will appear to split and roll back in two opposite directions. [Robert L. Thomas] The divided portions shrivel, curl up like paper, and form a roll on either hand. [Swete, Mounce]

Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 

This is the human perception of the magnitude of the disturbance but is not the ultimate passage of the heavens, which does not come until Rev. 20:11; 21:1. [Beckwith]

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 

The impression of all these heavenly phenomena is that the universe is coming apart. The moving of the mountains with their islands is probably tied to the great earthquake in v12. [Robert L. Thomas]

Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 

Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped forfrom the hills, and fromthe multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God isthe salvation of Israel. 

Amen.