Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Believers have not come to a physical peak that could be felt by hand, wrapped in burning fire and characterized by gloom, darkness and violent storm, which is Mount Sinai. That darkness, tempest and dread belonged to the occasion when the law was delivered. This denial opens a contrast carried forward in the verses that follow, between arriving at Sinai and arriving at Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and at Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. Even the thunder and lightning of Sinai would fail to stir those who will not be stirred by the clear truths of God's word.