Hebrews 12 · a question people ask
"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem" (12:22). What does the letter say is there?
The letter says it in its own words: "and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel." (12:22-24). It sets all this against "a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire" (12:18). These notes explain none of it further, place Mount Zion and "the heavenly Jerusalem" (12:22) on no map, and apply them to no city, land or people today.
The verses
“For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,”
“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.”