INDEED!
And before I reached the latter part of your post, I was thinking in my mind/heart . . .
NO WHERE
will do, essentially.
GOD OBLITERATED PLACE
!!!AS THE FOCUS OF HIS ANOINTING, EVIDENT "PORTAL" ON EARTH!!!
[Note the rending of the curtain in the Temple--supposedly was 3 feet thick at the time.]
BECAUSE HIS SPIRIT HAD COME TO DWELL WITHIN EACH OF US.
And, while He will evidently set His Throne in Jerusalem and certainly the New Jerusalem . . .
CHRIST DIED TO RESTORE FELLOWSHIP WITH MAN FACE TO FACE--AT AN AWFUL COST.
It would be an insult to His Precious Blood to return to asking Moses to speak to God because we were afraid to COMMUNE HEART TO HEART; SPIRIT TO SPIRIT; MIND TO MIND WITH GOD DIRECTLY--WHO DWELLS WITHIN US.
I just don't see God having much patience with such--all the more so the closer we get to His Appearing.
Yes, quix, It seems Jesus spent His ministry trying to show people that it's not about RELIGION. It's not about whether you can heal on sunday or not, or whether you're circumcised or not, or how well you can uphold the law. It was about a RELATIONSHIP with HIM. A real, daily, one-on-one relationship, spirit to Spirit, with the One who paid the price, and paid DEARLY. Man, if more people could just BEGIN to wrap around exactly what He did, and what it means for believers, and what He can do THROUGH US (if we'd just let Him), this old world wouldn't, no COULDN'T be the same!
Great point about the rending of the curtain in the Temple!
John 4:19-24 is quite clear that our worship is not tethered to a geographic location but rather is to be “in spirit and in truth.”