God’s assembly includes all his ‘holy ones’: angelic hosts as well as earthly saints. At Mount Sinai God was present with thousands of his angels as he assembled his people at his feet (Dt. 33:2–3; Ps. 68:17). The author of Hebrews draws the epiphany of God at Sinai to its more glorious conclusion. Though God appeared in the fire and smoke of Sinai to meet with ransomed Israel, he did not make that mountain his permanent sanctuary. Instead, he led the tribes through the desert to Mount Zion. There
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