"the ark shall no longer the center of religious worship. The ark is represented in the Law as the throne of Jehovah, who was "enthroned upon the cherubim" on the lid of the ark, thus the temple is called the "dwelling-places" of Jehovah (e.g. Psalm 46:4; Psalm 84:1). Now, in the Messianic period the consciousness of Jehovah's presence was to be so widely spread, at any rate in the center of God's kingdom, the holy city, that the ark would no longer be thought of; it would be, if not destroyed (we know, as a matter of fact, that the ark was destroyed in some unrecorded way), yet at least become utterly unimportant. Jerusalem would then naturally succeed to the title "Jehovah's throne"".