HEBREWS—NOTE ON Hebrews 12:22 you have come to Mount Zion. This phrase draws on extensive OT imagery of a new Zion/Jerusalem (Psalms 2:6; Psalms 110:2; Isaiah 62:6; see “city” in Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:16; Hebrews 13:14; see also Revelation 21:1). The author claims Christians have access, in the spiritual realm, into the heavenly Jerusalem. Therefore they participate in worship with innumerable angels (see Hebrews 1:7; also Deuteronomy 33:2; Daniel 7:10) and with the great “assembly” (Hebrews 12:23) of believers who have died in faith and are already in God’s presence.

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