For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”