The Ekklēsia in Hebrews For the writer of Hebrews (Paul?) the church is the “house of God” (Heb. 3:6), the “wandering people of God” for whom there yet remains a Sabbath-rest (see the “wilderness” theme in Heb. 3:7–4:13; 11:9, 13; 13:14), and “brethren” of the great High Priest (2:17). His Jewish Christian readers have not assembled at Mount Sinai, as did the Old Testament church (12:18–21), but they have come “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads