Covenant Reformed News – January 2011 • Volume XIII, Issue 9
This article from Covenant Reformed News provides an exegetical exposition of Hebrews 12:18-29, contrasting Mount Sinai (representing the old covenant economy) with Mount Zion (representing the new covenant in Christ). The author argues that Hebrews warns Jewish converts against apostasy by demonstrating the superiority of Christ's new covenant over the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial system, using the symbolic imagery of two mountains to illustrate this theological contrast.
Mount Sinai (1) The book of Hebrews is a sustained warning against apostasy, the departure of professing believers from the Lord Jesus, the doctrines of God’s Word and the true church. More specifically, Hebrews was written (in the first instance) to Jewish converts to Christianity, in the first century after Christ, in order to warn them against apostasy, so that they do not leave the Lord Jesus to go back to a Christless Judaism. To this end, Hebrews repeatedly contrasts the Old Testament...