Hebrews 12:22

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But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

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  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Ps 48:2 : 2 It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
  • Rev 14:1 : 1 An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I saw the holy city– the new Jerusalem– descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.
  • 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the LORD your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”
  • Jude 1:14 : 14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying,“Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,
  • Rev 21:10 : 10 So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
  • Rev 22:19 : 19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God(the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.
  • Rev 5:11-12 : 11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand– thousands times thousands– 12 all of whom were singing in a loud voice:“Worthy is the lamb who was killed to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and praise!”
  • Rev 7:2 : 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 He said:A Historical Review The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.
  • Josh 3:10 : 10 Joshua continued,“This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
  • Ps 68:17 : 17 God has countless chariots; they number in the thousands. The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
  • Ps 87:3 : 3 People say wonderful things about you, O city of God.(Selah)
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? Indeed, the LORD has made Zion secure; the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD, says:“Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.
  • Isa 51:11 : 11 Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
  • Isa 51:16 : 16 Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”
  • Isa 59:20 : 20 “A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the LORD.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you,‘The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.“For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.
  • Dan 7:10 : 10 A river of fire was streaming forth and proceeding from his presence. Many thousands were ministering to him; many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. The court convened and the books were opened.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
  • Joel 2:32 : 32 It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.
  • Matt 5:35 : 35 not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 Simon Peter answered,“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
  • Rom 9:26 : 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”
  • Rom 11:26 : 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:“The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
  • Ps 42:2 : 2 I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

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  • 23and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

  • 18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

  • 10So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

  • 5Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

  • 14For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

  • 17God has countless chariots; they number in the thousands. The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor.

  • 16But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

  • Heb 1:13-14
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    13But to which of the angels has he ever said,“Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

    14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

  • 12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them:“Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.

  • Heb 1:6-7
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    6But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says,“Let all the angels of God worship him!”

    7And he says of the angels,“He makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire,”

  • 12They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

  • 11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand– thousands times thousands–

  • 2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

  • 21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • 2Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

  • 12It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

  • 7and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

  • 13Suddenly a vast, heavenly army appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

  • 20Praise the LORD, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!

  • 14Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying,“Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

  • 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

  • 2Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his heavenly assembly!

  • 1 Pet 2:4-5
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    4A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • 22who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

  • 1Jacob Wrestles at Peniel So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

  • 13These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

  • 2And I saw the holy city– the new Jerusalem– descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

  • 10for it is written,‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’

  • 25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

  • 19So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

  • Heb 12:27-28
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    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

    28So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

  • Ps 122:2-3
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    2Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

    3Jerusalem is a city designed to accommodate an assembly.

  • 4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

  • 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified.

  • 11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

  • 12Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

  • 20Then I said to you,“You have come to the Amorite hill country which the LORD our God is about to give us.

  • 4Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

  • 2Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

  • 31The Judgment“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

  • 11And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God,

  • 22Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD of Heaven’s Armies and to ask his favor.

  • 6Three Angels and Three Messages Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth– to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

  • 5But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

  • 9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.