Hebrews 12:22

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Hebrews 12:22

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Summary

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Ye are come

Of the

An innumerable

Revelation 5:11

General references

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Ye are come

“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

Is Mount Zion in the far north,
The city of the great King.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

“How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?
That the Lord has founded Zion,
And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”

Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

So the ransomed of the Lord will return
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
And everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares the Lord.

“The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the city of the Lord,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

“And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Will be delivered;
For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who escape,
As the Lord has said,
Even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

Of the

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through

the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and

appear before God?

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

But the Lord is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth quakes,
And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;

For He is the living God and enduring forever,
And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,
And His dominion will be forever.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are

the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of

the living God.”

For they themselves report about us what kind of a

reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve

a living and true God,

And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

An innumerable

He said,
“The Lord came from Sinai,

And dawned on them from Seir;

He shone forth from Mount Paran,

And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones;

At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;

The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

“A river of fire was flowing
And coming out from before Him;

Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,

And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;
The court sat,
And the books were opened.

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands,

General references

For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.