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What if I told you the Bible talks about a
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time when not only the earth shakes, but heaven shakes. Two,
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there's a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We're going to
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talk about the forgotten high priest operating in the unseen realm,
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cosmic shaking of heaven and earth, Sinai versus Zion, the
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consuming fire of God, and what it actually means to
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live anchored in an unshakable kingdom in unstable times. Broadcast
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broadcasts plant truth in the.
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Minds of the people.
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Have you ever felt like the ground underneath everything is moving,
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not literally, but culturally, politically, and spiritually, Like something is
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shifting under the surface of the world, and nobody quite
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knows what's coming next. One day it's economic instability, the
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next day it's Ai replacing jobs. Right, so then wars
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rumbling overseas, Oh my gosh, like what happened yesterday? Then
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moral confusion so thick you could cut it with a knife,
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and somewhere in the middle of all that noise, most
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people are just trying to keep their footing. Okay, But
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what if I told you the Bible talks about a
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time when not only the earth shakes, but heaven shakes two.
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I mean, and I'm not talking metaphorically. Cosmically today we're
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stepping into the Book of Hebrews, and I need you
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to understand something up front that Hebrews is not soft
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devotional material. It's not stell coffee mug Christianity. It's fire,
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it's thunder, it's heavy, it's heavily heavenly temples. Sorry, it's angels,
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an assembly and a high priest operating in another dimension.
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And it ends with the warning that God is a
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consuming fire and every thing that can be shaken will
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be shaken. That's not Hallmark Channel theology, guys, that's supernatural
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kingdom reality. Here's the part that hits hardest. In the
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middle of all that's shaking, there's a kingdom that cannot
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be shaken. So tonight we're going to talk about the
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forgotten high Priest operating in the unseen realm. This is huge,
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the cosmic shaking of heaven and Earth, Sinai versus Zion,
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the consuming fire of God, and what it actually means
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to live anchored in an unshakable kingdom in unstable times
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as usual. This isn't about fear, It's about footing and
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if you've ever felt like the world is wobbling, this
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episode is for you. If you've ever wondered whether the
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spiritual realm is more active than we realize, this episode
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is for you. And if you're trying to live steady
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in strange times, you're in the right place. Because welcome
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to broadcasting Seeds. If you haven't already, take a second
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to like, follow, share, and leave a review. That's how
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the show grows. That's how this conversation reaches more people
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who are quietly asking the same questions that you are.
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So all right, let's step into Hebrews Section one, the
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Forgotten High Priest. Now, let me ask you something. When
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was the last time you heard someone talk about Jesus
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as a functioning high priest, not as the savior, not
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as a teacher, not as a miracle worker, as high
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priest exactly. We don't talk about that much anymore, and
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yet Hebrews puts it front and center. Here's the claim
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Hebrews makes, and it's wild if you actually sit with it. Okay,
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Jesus didn't just die, rise and disappear into the clouds.
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It's now what happened. He ascended into a real, functioning
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heavenly sanctuary and is actively operating there right now. Now.
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People have contentious theories about whether that's true, whether it's
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the Satan's little season. There's all kinds of theories, all right,
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But for this conversation, he's operating there right now. Hebrews says,
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the earthly temple in Jerusalem was never the main stage.
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It was a copy, a shadow, I rehearsal space. The
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real temple isn't in Israel at all, It's in heaven.
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Read Hebrews eight. Slowly. Sometime Jesus is a minister in
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the sanctuary, and the true tent that the Lord set up,
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not man. That's not symbolic language, folks, not poetic fluff,
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heavenly structure, heavenly throne, heavenly priesthood. Now think about that.
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In practical terms. Ancient Israel had one day a year
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where the high priests entered the Holy of Holies, the
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day of Atonement, blood sacrifice. You had fear silence, bells
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tied to his robes in case he dropped dead in
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the presence of God. That was terrifying. But Hebrews it
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flips that. It says Jesus entered once and for all
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not into a man made room behind a veil, but
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into the actual presence of God. And here's the part
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most people miss. He didn't go into visit, He went
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in to serve. That means there's ongoing intercession happening beyond
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what your eyes can see. You ever feel like your
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prayers hit the ceiling, Hebrews says they don't, because there
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is a high priest advocating for you in a dimension
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layered over this one that sounds soft. That's not soft theology, folks,
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that's cosmic governance. And Hebrews ties this priest to to
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one of the strangest figures in the Bible, mah Malkisa
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Deck sorry Malchisa Deck Genesis fourteen, a king and priest
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who appears out of nowhere, no genealogy, no origin story,
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no death record, Hebrews. Hebrews says, Jesus speak belongs to
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that order, an eternal priest, to no beginning, no end.
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If you're into the strange and the mysterious, this should
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get your attention, because Hebrews is basically saying the spiritual
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realm is not passive. It's structured, it's organized, it has
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a hierarchy, and it has function, and Christ is seated
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at the center of it. Now, let me connect this
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work to you. If Jesus is functioning as high priest
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in the true sanctuary, that means your security is not
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anchored in earthly systems at all, not governments, not in markets,
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not institutions, not even church buildings, which we've talked about
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in the past. Here your anchor is tied to something
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operating in another realm entirely, and that changes how you
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handle chaos. And when the ground feels unstable, you remember something.
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The throne room isn't shaking. We'll talk about shaking next,
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but before we get there, you need this foundation. You're
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not alone in the unseen. There is an active priest
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that operating in your favor. That's not fantasy. That's Hebrews.
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And most believers have completely forgotten that section two, the
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cosmic shaking. All right, Now that we've established something huge
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that Christ is functioning in a real, heavenly sanctuary, we
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have to deal with the part of Hebrews that makes
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most modern Christians, frankly a little uncomfortable. The shaking. Hebrews
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twelve says this, Yet once more, I will shake not
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only the earth but also the heavens. Let that sit
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for a second. Not just sir, earthquakes, not just political turmoil.
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Heavens plural, plural. The writer is quoting the prophet.
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Ha Guy.
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H a ggai hoggy ha Guy, but he's not applying
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it forward future tense, not history, not Babylon, not Rome.
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A coming shaking. And here's where we need to slow down,
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because this is where people either drift into panic or
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drift into denial. Hebrews doesn't say everything is going to
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wobble randomly. It says the shaking has purpose. So that's
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the thing that cannot be shaken, so that the things
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that cannot be shaken may remain. That changes everything. This
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isn't chaos for chaos sake. It's filtration, its refinement, exposure. Right.
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Imagine a massive industrial sifter. You pour a mixture in,
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it shakes violently, and everything unstable falls away. That's what
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solid remains. That's the imagery. Okay, And if you're honest,
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doesn't it feel like we're living through tremors right now?
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Like that. Cultural structures that looked permanent twenty years ago,
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straight cracking moral assumptions are fracturing. Institutions. People trusted without question,
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are now questioned daily. It feels like instability. Hebrew says,
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it's revelation because shaking reveals what you built your life on. Okay,
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you ever see what happens during an actual earthquake, have you?
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The weak structures don't negotiate, They freaking collapse, and well
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built ones bend and hold. It's not punishment, that's just physics.
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And spiritually it's similar. Hebrews is telling believers who were
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under pressure, I mean real pressure, don't retreat to something
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smaller just because it feels safer. Don't run back to
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Sinai because Zion feels invisible. The temptation for those early
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believers was to go back to the old Covenant temple system,
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visible and tangible and familiar. But Hebrews says that system isn't.
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That system itself was just temporary and it was about
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to be shaken. If this was written before seventy a d.
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Then within a few years Jerusalem would literally literally fall
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and the temple would be destroyed. Talk about shaking everything
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they thought was permanent on but the Kingdom of Christ
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freaking untouched. That's the distinction. The Kingdom isn't the same
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thing as earthly religious structure. Let that sink in. Let
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it sink in. Because this is where we get tripped up.
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When systems shake, people assume God is losing. Hebrews actually
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says the opposite. Shaking removes what was never eternal in
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the first place. It's uncomfortable, folks, it's unsettling, but it's
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not out of control. And here's the personal question. When
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pressure hits your life, financial stress, health, scares, betrayal, uncertainty,
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what shakes loose fear, bitterness, desperation, or does something deeper
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actually hold. That's not condemnation, that's diagnostic because Hebrews isn't
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trying to scare you, it's trying to anchor you. A
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kingdom that cannot be shaken implies everything else can. And
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if we're honest, that's exactly what we're seeing. Sinai versus
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Section three, Sinai versus Zion. Two mountains, two realities. Let's
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saink the picture. One mountain is covered in smoke, Lightning
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splits the sky, thundercracks so violently that people beg for
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it to stop. There's a trumpet blast that grows louder
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and louder until it feels like your bones are vibrating.
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The ground trembles. There's fire at the summit and a
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boundary line at the base that says, if you cross this, frankly,
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you die. That's Mount Sinai. That's Exodus nineteen. That's the
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Giving of the Law. It was terrifying, and it was
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supposed to be. God wasn't trying to be dramatic for
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no reason. Sinai established something holiness is not casual. But
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then Hebrews does something brilliant. It says, you have not
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come to that mountain. Let that sink in. You have
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not come to that mountain. Maybe you have not come
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to a mountain that may be touched and that burned
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with fire. Instead, hebrew says, you have come to Mount Zion,
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to the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
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to innumerable angels in festal gathering. Festal gathering, not trembling,
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not terror, celebration, same God, same God, different access. This
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is where people misunderstand the New Covenant. They think grace
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means God got softer. Hebrews doesn't say that. It says
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the location changed, the approach changed. Sinai was distanced. Zion
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is invitation. Sinai said, stay back. Zion says, come forward.
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But where's the supernatural part? Most people skip over. But
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here's the spetch supernatural part most people skip over. Zion
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in Hebrews isn't talking about earthly Jerusalem. It's talking about
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heavenly geography, the heavenly Jerusalem. The writer is describing a
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populated spiritual reality, angels and assembly, the spirits of the
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righteous made perfect, God as judge of all, Jesus as mediator.
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This layered cosmology, that's what this is, layered cosmology, not metaphor.
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The early Church understood this better than we do today.
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Bottom line, they believed worship wasn't just songs in a room,
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and they believed they were participating in something happening in
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another realm. Then when they gathered, they were aligning with
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heavenly Zion. Now pause, that's true. Church isn't a building.
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We've talked about this the last like two episodes, and
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it's not performance. It's participation. And that matters for you personally,
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because a lot of believers still live in Sinai. Emotionally,
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they approach God like he's lightning waiting to strike. Constant
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constant anxiety, constant fear. This is the God that people
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are given constant sense of not enough. Hebrew says, you're
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standing on a different mountain now, folks. But it also
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gives a warning. Just because you're at Zion doesn't mean
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casual rebellion is safe, saying God, remember consuming fire. The
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difference is covenant, not character. So here's the question. Are
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you living like someone standing at Sinai or someone standing
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at Zion. Are you shrinking back or are you stepping
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forward boldly? Hebrews says, we approach with confidence because the
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high priest we just talked about, Jesus. That's why section
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one matters, because access without a priest still would still
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be terrifying. But access with a mediator Jesus, that's security, folks.
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And this is where the shaking connects. If you're anchored
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to Sinai, systems when they fall, you panic. If you're
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anchored to Zion when systems fall, you stay steady, because
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your mountain isn't geographic, it's eternal. Section four, Our God
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is a consuming fire. Now we get to the line
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that makes people sit, sit ups straight, or shift uncomfortably
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in their seat. Okay, Hebrews ends this whole mountain comparison
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this shaking imagery, this heavenly assembly talk with one final statement,
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Our god is a consuming fire.
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That was is.
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That's pulled straight from deuterotomy. Same God of Sinai, same
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God of Zion, consuming fire. Now here's where we have
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to slow down, because this is where people get weird,
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straight up weird. Some here fire and think rage. Some
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here fire and they think about judgment only. Some here
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fire and immediately jump to end times panic. But fire
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in scripture is more layered than that, and it always
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has been. Fire destroys, yes, of course, but fire also
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purifies and it refines, it reveals what something actually is.
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You ever see raw gold pulled from the ground like
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a gold nugget, It's not really shiny. It's mixed with
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everything else. So there's like stone and some other elements
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that are in there as well. But when gold goes
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into the fire, all the impurities rise to the surface.
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The gold's not destroyed, it's clarified. Now apply that to shaking.
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If everything that can be shaken will be shaken, then
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everything that can't survive the fire won't. Not because God
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is insecure, but because truth doesn't need props. Hebrew Hebrews
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is telling believers in a hostile environment. Don't treat grace
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like God got weak. Grace gave you access and fire
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still reveals what's real. Here's the personal part. When pressure