Hebrews 12:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

I have installed (anointed) (established) my king on Zion, my holy mountain.

His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north.

Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home.

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

What then will one answer the messengers that come to us from Philistia? We will tell them that Jehovah has established Zion and in her the poor and afflicted of his people find refuge.

Therefore this is what The Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation. It is a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily.

Jehovah's ransomed will return. They will enter Zion with singing! Everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

A Savior will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from sin, declares Jehovah.

The sons of those who oppress you will bow in front of you. All who loathe you will bow at your feet. They will call you the city of Jehovah, Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

It will happen that who ever calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved. There will be those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem that will escape, even among the survivors whom Jehovah calls.

In this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: The deliverer will come out of Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother.

A Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

Of the

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.

The blood of Christ did even more. Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself without blemish to God and cleansed your conscience from dead works. Now we can serve (worship) the living God.

It is a dreadful (terrible) thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Has any other human ever heard the only true God speaking from fire, as we have? And if they have, would they live to tell about it?

Joshua said: By this you shall know the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

The Assyrian emperor sent his chief official to insult the living God. May Jehovah your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive.'

I thirst for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

How I want to be there! I long to be in Jehovah's temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.

Jehovah is the true (faithful) (right) God! He is the living God and the everlasting king. The earth quakes at his wrath. The nations cannot endure his indignation.

I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble with respect before the God of Daniel. He is the living God, and steadfast forever! His kingdom will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even unto the end.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the grains of the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. It will be said: You are the sons of the living God in the place where it was said you are not my people!

Simon Peter answered: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!

In the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, they will be called Sons of the living God. (Hosea 2:23)

All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God,

I saw another angel ascending from the east. He had the seal of the living God. 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

Jehovah came from Mount Sinai. He rose like the sun over Edom and shone on his people from Mount Paran. Ten thousand angels were with him. A flaming fire was at his right hand.

The chariots of God are myriads in number, thousands upon thousands. Jehovah is among them. The God of Sinai is in his holy place.

A fiery stream issued from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones.

I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. The number of them was ten thousand (myriads) times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.

General references

We do not have a city that continues. We seek after the city that is to come.