Isa 2 includes this:
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1 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2 In the last days
the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established
as chief among the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
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Is Mt. Zion the church?
That reading seems supported by a number of other passages. Hebrews speaks of the differences between the old covenant and the new. Chapter 12 reads, in part:
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18You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20because they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."[c] 21The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."[d]
22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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Hebrews says that New Covenant believers have come to a Mt. Zion that differs from the old one that could be touched. The new one cannot be touched. The passage seems to expressly equate this new Mt. Zion with the church.
A second relevant passage is Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statute.
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While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
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Here the kingdom of God, or the church, is again described as the largest mountain. That seems to link to Isa. 2's description of the chief of mountains.
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