suggests, God, who gives them life, dwells in them. The presence of God is what constitutes the new Jerusalem.7 These heavenly citizens are Israelites and non-Israelites. There is no redemptive dualism. This “assembly” (ekklēsia) is a gathering of “the first born,” “the counterpart of the congregation or ‘church’ of the Israelites assembled under the leadership of Moses at Sinai. Thus Stephen says of Moses: ‘This is he who was in the congregation (ecclesia) in the wilderness with the angel who spoke