The point I wish to make is that “the house of god” is not the same as God’s House”. Try this.
Viz:
Gen 28:19
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. (KJV)

1008 Beyth-' El (bayth-ale'); from 1004 and 410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine: KJV-- Beth-el.

Man says that AHA.. the place, that piece of dirt, is thus the house of God. But, only because they do not keep reading. Bethel is indeed the house of god, in fact the house of many gods. BUT IT IS NOT GOD’S House. There is actually a Big difference. There are many bethels with many ‘gods’. But for those who know there is only one God,
They look for his house, for they know their bethel does not cut it.
They search for God’s House.
See
Gen 28:22

And THIS STONE, which I have set for a pillar, SHALL BE God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. (KJV)

God’s house is thus not a piece of dirt, but it is a stone pillar, as Jacob ACTUALLY said. Thus the pillar is the prototype of a house not made with man’s hands.
On the other hand, the PLACE Bethel, the piece of dirt, is in the land of the Canaanites, to which universal religion still bows and applies the name Bethel. It is their Bethel, but it is the house of their gods, not Israel’s. Bethel still is to this day...the universal house, because Bethel has many gods.

To wit. Gen 35:4
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. (KJV)

So… Jacob left all the false gods there in Bethel, the piece of dirt, and they are still in Bethel to this day.

But No, No. Indeed Jacob did not leave the pillar, God‘s House. He took it with them.
This very stone, Jacob’s pillar, has in fact followed the children of Israel to this very day.

Thus Israel is not a place, it is a people.
3478 Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale'); from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: -Israel.

1 Cor 10:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. (KJV)

The rock fed them, provided water for them that they never thirst.
The rock was the condemnation of Moses when he struck it twice.

And it gives more meaning to Christ’s Words… ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone”, and “this stone falling on him will grind him to powder”

Jacob’s pillar was the coronation stone for all the Kings of Israel. See: 2Ki 11
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. (KJV)

So, in retrospect, Bethel is indeed left to them desolate, as is written. So I think it is an apt term for a universal church of many denominations, gods and statues.

The Word says thou shall not make an image of or any semblance of God... But of course they have so filed the facets of the keys to the kingdom that they stole, they don't mention that part. The Lord says plainly "Call no man Father on this earth" Yet they proudly call a man their 'father' who wears the open mouthed, two horned fish hat of Dagon while carrying a pole proudly showing their war 'trophy' of the crucified Christ. Yep Bethel indeed. Plain and simple. But not my 'El'.

Nevertheless, Israel, “God’s House” has the Temple of God, a temple not made with hands.
Actually, there’s more. A great deal more. One may do a little web search on Jeremiah planting the tops of the cedars in the Isles. Also the “stone of destiny”, the “stone of scone”, “Jacob’s Pillar” and of course the 400 pound stone with iron rings worn from being carried that is below the coronation seat of British royalty in Westminster abbey to this day.

If you have never researched them, it makes for an interesting read.