2 Chronicles 6:2

Thy dwelling for ever. It was not God’s plan that the Temple should be destroyed or that the nation of Israel should come to an end. If Israel had remained true to the Lord, keeping His commandments and sharing the knowledge of God with the nations about, light would have gone out over the whole world which would have brought to all the peoples of earth an opportunity of salvation. In such a case the Temple would have been the world center of the worship of God and Jerusalem would have become the capital and metropolis of the world.