Revelation 11REV 11
The book of the Acts 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, (ruin its place of standing before God, of Jerusalem. It was soon after broken up as a place. From that time 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.
The place of strength is always that of being forced
to lean on God.