The ending of Hebrews 12 offers a fine opportunity to consider the importance of worship, together, on Sunday. I am astonished at the number of social media posts form clergy that downplay worship in favor of being the Salvation Army without the salvation.

The theophany of Sinai receives a negative perspective here, one based on fear. At the same time, this could be an entry point into a discussion of holiness and the chasm between the divine and the human, a la Barth.

We return to the realm of the invisible  of 11:3.Please note that the preacher in Hebrews speaks of heaven as a festal gathering.

The sprinkled blood here of Jesus does not cry out as do the saints in Revelation, or the blood cry of Abel from the ground. One could use this as an entry point for violence in 2019. This could also be a cue to do a bit of work on the meaning of sacrifice in a more sophisticated way.

The unshakable kingdom is to be contrasted with Haggai where God operates a shakedown fo the nations for wealth to flow into the restored temple area. This is quite the literary lep for unshakeable, to find ti removing that which can be shaken.9V.27)

Consuming fire a quote Dt. 4:24, 9:3.  I would l think one could make this an image of purification, of danger, obviously, or even the divine presence itself, as in the burning bush, even though it did not consume the bush.