<p>12:22- see on Jud. 5:19,20; Gal. 4:26; Eph. 2:19.</p><p><em>But you have come to association with mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels</em>- Paul was writing to the Jerusalem Christians who were tempted to return to the temple cult on mount Zion. He is seeking to persuade them that the true Zion and Jerusalem is &quot;heavenly&quot;, the community of true believers in the new covenant is a city waiting to come down from Heaven to earth as it were as spoken of in Revelation. But &quot;the Jerusalem that now is&quot; remained in bondage (Gal. 4). The new covenant is associated with hosts of Angels, just as the old covenant was, but as explained in Heb. 1, they are under the control of the Lord Jesus and work for the guidance of those in the new covenant and not in the old.</p>