The book of the Acts of the Apostles gives us the account of the establishment of the church and its being called to be the witness for God. This involves the setting aside, from its place of standing before God, of Jerusalem. It was soon after broken up as a place. From then onward, we have no recognition, on God's part, of any places upon earth, as such. Individual persons as forming parts of the church are recognized and churches are recognized in the epistles, but places, as such, are never owned as having, as mere places, any interest in the mind of God.
In the eleventh chapter of Revelation, however, we find a definite place on earth again recognized as the subject of special interest to the Divine mind, and in that chosen place, in spite of all its evil, and in spite of all the evil of the Gentiles, we find a witness is raised and marvelously maintained there.