Tragically, he only returned halfway to Jerusalem. The Roman ecclesiastical system is a humanly devised religion. No institution has done more to blind the minds of men to the simplicity of New Testament Christianity. The Protestant Reformation was an effort to move back in the direction of Jerusalem. Lamentably, they never made it.
Reformation is only halfway between corruption and restoration.
Jerusalem symbolizes purity in faith and practice. There are as many saved people outside the church as there are saved people who have never contacted the blood of Christ by obeying the gospel of Christ. Catholicism and denominationalism are monumental evils. May we never be satisfied with anything less than the old Jerusalem gospel and the church it produces.