I believe that Jerusalem's temple located on the mount Moriah (the Temple Mount), but not on the top of it, but on the lower mountainside that belonged to area of the ancient city of David. I take out some Bible verses from the Israel Bible (Tanakh) that is in theisraelbible.com site.

2 Chronicles 23:20 He took the chiefs of hundreds, the nobles, and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they escorted the king down from the House of Hashem into the royal palace by the upper gate, and seated the king on the royal throne.

The Israel Bible that rabbi Tuly uses says that few men escorted the King down from the House of Hashem (Temple) into the royal palace by the upper gate. Royal palace is the castle where the King dwelled. Everyone who has even a little understanding about the message of the Bible knows that King's castle was in the city of David, not on the top of the Temple Mount. The Israel Bible says that the Temple and King's castle located side by side. This means, according the Israel Bible that the Temple also located in the city of David, next to the King's castle (palace).

My question to rabbi Tuly is that why you believe and teach that the location of the Temple was on the top of the Temple Mount, although the Israel Bible locates it to the city of David next to the King's castle?

1 Kings 8:
1 Then Shlomo convoked the elders of Yisrael-all the heads of the tribes and the ancestral chieftains of the Israelites-before King Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring up the Aron Brit Hashem from the City of David, that is, Tzion.
2 All the men of Yisrael gathered before King Shlomo at the Feast, in the month of Ethanim-that is, the seventh month.
3 When all the elders of Yisrael had come, the Kohanim lifted the Aron
4 and carried up the Aron of Hashem. Then the Kohanim and the Leviim brought the Tent of Meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent.
5 Meanwhile, King Shlomo and the whole community of Yisrael, who were assembled with him before the Aron, were sacrificing sheep and oxen in such abundance that they could not be numbered or counted.
6 The Kohanim brought the Aron Brit Hashem to its place underneath the wings of the cherubim, in the Shrine of the House, in the Holy of Holies;

The Israel Bible that rabbi Tuly uses says that the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord (Aron Brit Hashem) was in the city of David, where it was in its place underneath the wings of cherubim (in the Temple).

My question to rabbi Tuly is that why you believe and teach that the location of the Temple was on the top of the Temple Mount, although the Israel Bible locates it to the city of David?

Nehemiah 3:
26 The temple servants were living on the Ophel, as far as a point in front of the Water Gate in the east, and the jutting tower.)
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28 Above the Horse Gate, the Kohanim repaired, each in front of his house.

The Israel Bible that rabbi Tuly uses says that the temple servants lived on the Ophel, and that the priests (the Kohanim) lived near the Horse Gate.

Why would temple servants and the priest live anywhere else than near the Temple, in which they served God and the people of Israel? The Ophel area is in the east and southern slope and mountainside of mount Moriah (the Temple Mount). The Israel Bible that rabbi Tuly uses locates the Temple to the Ophel area, not to the top of the mountain.

Everyone who has even a little understanding about the message of the Bible knows, that the ancient city of David situated lower mountainside of the mount Moriah, not on the top of the mountain. The ancient city of David situated on an eastern hill and southern slopes of the Mount Moriah surrounded on all sides by mountains.

My question to rabbi Tuly is that why you believe and teach that the Temple situated on the top of the mount Moriah, although the Israel Bible locates the Temple to Ophel area?

I haven't put forth my questions in a sense that I want to be contentious, but for the reason of finding out the truth, because the Almighty God of Israel has ordered where His Temple must built, and we can see and find it from His word, the Bible (Tanakh).

I'm awaiting your answer rabbi Tuly, that you can do in a way you like. Privately by e-mail or publicly by Breaking Israel News or israel365 YouTube channel.

I have in the past believed that the Temple situated on the top of the Temple Mount. I have been mistaken about this, but made the correction in my heart and have confessed my error. I'm not approaching you rabbi Tuly by the heart of pride, but with the heart knowing that I can't put my trust in my thoughts and mind, because a man's heart and also my heart is deceitful if I don't put my trust on God and I can't find the truth without the aid of the God of Israel, the Almighty God.

The Bible gives us an answer why the Jews anymore have not the Temple, and haven't got it nearly 2000 years:

1 Kings 9:
6 [But] if you and your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep the commandments [and] the laws which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
7 then I will sweep Yisrael off the land which I gave them; I will reject the House which I have consecrated to My name; and Yisrael shall become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8 And as for this House, once so exalted, everyone passing by it shall be appalled and shall hiss. And when they ask, ‘Why did Hashem do thus to the land and to this House?’
9 they shall be told, ‘It is because they forsook Hashem their God who freed them from the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore Hashem has brought all this calamity upon them.’”

"Forty years before the holy temple was destroyed, the following things took place: on the Day of Atonement, the ram ceased to be supernatural; the red woolen yarn that normally changes into white stayed red and did not change; and the west side candle of the candelabra of the sanctuary did not want to burn when the doors of the holy temple opened by themselves.”

Right after the death of Yeshua the Messiah the red woolen yarn did not become white, because the sins cannot be forgiven otherwise than by believing Yeshua the Messiah, His atonement in His blood.

Yeshua's disciples (Matthew 24 chapter) showed to Yeshua the buildings of the Temple. Yeshua said that see you not all these things. There shall not be left here one stone on another, that shall not be thrown down. Yeshua prophesied the total destruction of the Temple and its buildings, which took place 70 AD. Yeshua came for the reason of forgiveness of sins in His blood and that in His redemption, God will make His nation to be His Temples where God dwells.

When the Jews have no Temple it is a mark that they are not loyal to God, but have forsaken Him. Building the third temple is not the solution, because the real location of the Temple is not only geographical question, for in the Messiah Yeshua by believing in Him, you become the Temple where God dwells as the sign that God have forgiven your sins:

Jeremiah 31:
31 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant which they broke, though I espoused them—declares Hashem.
32 But such is the covenant I will make with the House of Yisrael after these days—declares Hashem: I will put My Teaching into their inmost being and inscribe it upon their hearts. Then I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

The final salvation of the Jews:

Zechariah 13:
8  Throughout the land —declares Hashem— Two-thirds shall perish, shall die, And one-third of it shall survive.
9  That third I will put into the fire, And I will smelt them as one smelts silver And test them as one tests gold. They will invoke Me by name, And I will respond to them. I will declare, “You are My people,” And they will declare, “Hashem is our God!”

The Bible speaks about Zechariah chapter 13 of the last days, the end of times, when God shall save the Jews, the third part of them, the remnant. That is the final solution to the Jews, which is believing in Yeshua, that He is the Messiah, the Saviour and the Lord Adonai.

With all of my heart, I love and bless Israel, the Jews and pray for them, their coming into salvation in the end of times as the remnant (the third part) as the Bible says. So, by faith in Yeshua they shall enter into the salvation, which shall opens the new era in the mankind, the millennial kingdom, in which Yeshua is the Prince of Peace, who leads His nation (all Gentiles and Jews who believe in Him) after the millennial kingdom to the New Heaven and the New Earth and the New Jerusalem that is the eternal God's kingdom.

Petri Paavola 30.4.2019

References:
The Israel Bible theisraelbible.com
Jerusalem Publication Society Bible 1917