20  J I M TAY L O R God (Mark 1:15), or his church (Matthew 16:18). The writer of Hebrews described the church very clearly when he wrote the following: For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto black- ness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so fearful was the appearance, that Mo- ses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first- born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven. (He- brews 12:18–25) The writer of Hebrews described the church as God views it. However, many men see the church as some people and a build- ing, but that is not the church. The church is composed of all the saints who have been called out of the world by God’s grace and by their faith to enter the kingdom of heaven. That same new world of the church was also described in John’s revelation let- ter to the seven churches of Asia (chapters 21 and 22). That new world will not allow the devil entrance. It is the perfect place