Biblical Questions

Question 1: Location of Temple in Jerusalem.

1. I enjoy all the content from Chaim Richman and the Temple Institute. I am excited about all the plans and preparation and progress on the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. 

2.Couldn't the area of the Haram al Sharif fit the description of the Roman Fortress Antonia which was a Roman Castra for the 10th legion? 

3. I also believe that the place of the temple was not in the City of David. I believe the Haram al Sharif vs City of David is a false dichotomy. Didn't Solomon's millo connect David's palace with the temple? And couldn't the place of the temple have been on the Ophel in between the City of David and the Haram?

4. Okay, so the Ophel was a plowed field, and then a trash dump, and then a parking lot. But doesn't that fit Bible prophecy?

Question 2: 

I have seen quotes and videos of prominent Jews comment of their influence in the media, entertainment, business and government.

The purpose of the Temple and being the choosen people is to spread the light of HaShem to the world. 

Accordingly, do you think Jews are doing enough with their influence to help and the gentiles and the wolrd keep the noahide laws considering the steadily increasing depictions of violence and immorality?

Question 3: 

Is there concern about Israel being led and influenced by leaders that had connection with of sympathies for paramilitary group “Irgun” since Menachem Begin (founder of Lakud party)? This influence would include Rahm Emanuel here in the US.

Question 4: 

Did HaShem or Ataxerxes command Ezra to establish the Jewish rabbinical system and its enforcement? 

Ezra 7:21;25-26

21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree .... 
25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Question 5:

Do you think that Joshua, the son of Nun leading Israel into the promised land be a spiritual and figurative type and foreshadowing of the Messiah, that the Law of Moses could not ultimately lead Israel to realize its fullest potential, that only a future Messiah represented by Joshua the son of Nun (Yeshua) could via a future everlasting covenant (Ezek 37:26)?

Question 6:

When Ezra displaced the priestly line of Joshua, the son of Josedek and Nehemiah displaced Zerubbabel; could Yeshua de Josedek and Zerubbabel have similarly serve as spiritual and figurative types of the Messiah?. When Ezra called the priests to divorce their wives, do you think that Malachi's (a contemporary of Ezra) criticism of divorce have been directed towards Ezra? 

Malachi
11 ¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. (Irony)
12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master (rabbi) and the scholar (scribe), out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 ¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Question 7:

Do you think it possible that Ezra could have made an over-interpretation of the Torah command for a priest to marry one from among his own people, to exclude converts/proselytes (like Ruth), and have brought into Judaism and Christianity an unintended racial interpretation?

Question 8: 

It seems to me that biblical  prophets focused criticism for their own people. If something wasn’t right with the biblical people, instead of blaming others, a prophet tended to criticize his own people for their own shortcomings. There is no power on Earth that could frustrate a chosen people from realizing their foreordained purpose. Only the chosen people themselves could stand in their own way.  Instead of propagating a victim/identity politics message, wouldn’t a true prophet call his own people to repentance?