Hebrews 12:18-29 - A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

¹⁸ For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm ¹⁹ and trumpet-blast, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not a word more should be added; ²⁰ for they did not try to bear the order, "Even if a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death," ²¹ and so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am terrified and terror-stricken!" ²² But you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless hosts of angels, ²³ to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection, ²⁴ to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks a better message than even Abel's did.

²⁵ See to it that you do not refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they did not escape, because they refused to listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, if we reject Him who is from heaven? ²⁶ Then His voice shook the earth, ²⁷ but now His promise is, "Once more I will make not only the earth but heaven itself tremble." Now that expression, "Once more," signifies the final removal of the things that can be shaken, to let remain the things that cannot be shaken. ²⁸ Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear; ²⁹ for our God, indeed, is a consuming fire.