18. You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness and storms.
19. You have not come to the noise of a trumpet or to the sound of a voice. When the people of Israel heard the voice, they begged not to have to hear another word.
20. They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be put to death with stones.”
21. What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”
22. But you have not come to that kind of place. The new place you have come to is Mount Zion. You have come to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands of angels gathered together with joy.
23. You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn children. Their names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people. And you have come to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.
24. You have come to Jesus, the One who brought the new agreement from God to his people. You have come to the sprinkled blood that has a better message than the blood of Abel.
25. So be careful and do not refuse to listen when God speaks. They refused to listen to him when he warned them on earth. And they did not escape. Now God is warning us from heaven. So it will be worse for us if we refuse to listen to him.
26. When he spoke before, his voice shook the earth. But now he has promised, “Once again I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”
27. The words “once again” clearly show us that everything that was made will be destroyed. These are the things that can be shaken. And only the things that cannot be shaken will remain.