OUR FATHER WHOSE CITY IS MOUNT ZION 

The book of Hebrews chapter 12 verses 18 - 24 says this;

18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”

22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

After alerting the believers to the dangers of falling short of the grace of God, the writer of Hebrews explained that being at Mount Sinai (to which Moses brought the children of Isreal) was a terrifying experience for all the people and the strictures surrounding that mountain were severe and even Moses himself was afraid and trembling.

If the earthly Mount Sinai was so fearful, how much more would Mount Zion in Heaven be? The writer tells us that Mount Zion is the city of the Living God and it contains: 

• An innumerable company of angels
• The general assembly
• The church of the firstborn registered in heaven 
•  God the Judge of all
• Spirits of just men made perfect
• Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant 
• The blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel.

As such, in light of what the pinacle of the kingdom of God under the new covenant, contains, great fear should govern our conduct.

Amen.

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