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)

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, BUT IT IS NOT GOD’S House. Big difference.
read three verses more.
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, to both 'christians who should know better' (the universal church) as well as the Jews.

To wit. Gen 35:6
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. (KJV) ie, Canaanite gods, like Dagon, etc.

Let's not forget though that although the largest Bethel bunch chose Rome, one division of Bethel still occupies that piece of dirt. Rev chapters 2&3 expose them as "Those who claim to be jews, but are, in fact, the synagogue of Satan.

And, that's why Indeed, Israel did not leave the pillar, God‘s House in Bethel. They took it with them.

This very stone, Jacob’s pillar, has in fact followed the children of Israel to this very day.

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 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'. yo daddy not my daddy, sez I.

And, as for the synagogue of satan, your quest for third a stone temple and a red cow will fail. Oh, your insistance on a red cow without a single white hair is very telling, actually. Red is War, which you wage incessantly, and the color white stands for purity, the garments of salvation -- which you rejected in the beginning and obviously still do.

Nevertheless, Israel, “God’s House” has the Temple of God, and as it is written, 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 story of the 400 pound stone with it's iron rings worn thin from being carried about 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.