Covenant Reformed News – March 2011 • Volume XIII, Issue 11
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds Hebrews 12:22-24, contrasting Mount Sinai (representing the terror of the law) with Mount Zion (representing Christ and the new covenant community). The author exhorts Jewish converts and modern believers to hold fast to Christ and His church rather than turning back to legalism or false religion, emphasizing the present reality of believers' citizenship in the heavenly Jerusalem and communion with Christ the mediator.
Mount Sion (1) Those first-century Jews, to whom the inspired NT letter to the Hebrews was written in the first instance, had two choices. They could hold fast to Jesus Christ, suffer for His sake and be crowned with glory; or they could rejoin most of their fellow countrymen by returning to OT law and worship and perishing everlastingly! Hebrews 12, by the use of two mountains, Mount Sinai (18-21) and Mount Sion or Zion (22-24), vividly presents the two options. On the one hand, as we saw in...