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. As a place, it was broken up soon after. From that time on, 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 this 11th 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.