That's a little hardcore dude. Well, can't say, even if I believed in any given Messiah, I still couldn't say, as people everywhere got different beliefs...what would you say about Zimbabweans believing in zombie gods?

http://www.gotquestions.org/Jews-reject-Jesus.html

Jews do not reject their Messiah. They have rejected literally hundreds of false Messiahs. Whether or not someone is the Messiah is based upon Jewish prophecy, and Yeshua of Nazareth (yes, I know which Messiah you mean) does not meet the criteria. First, you need to understand that Judaism is NOT...I repeat NOT Christianity minus the New Testament. Judaism is STRICT monotheism. G-d is one. That's it. No Trinity. Judaism does NOT contain a prophecy or belief in a Messiah come to redeem them from sin. Judaism does NOT contain a belief in good/evil dualism. Satan works for G-d in his role as Tempter of Man. He never rebelled, nor did he want to. Many questions out here answered by Jews, including a Rabbi, explain why. Jewish prophecy NEVER had the Messiah born of a virgin. That is a mistranslation of Isaiah when it was rendered into Greek from Hebrew. Here is one quote from my link: 1) JESUS DID NOT FULFILL THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES What is the Messiah supposed to accomplish? The Bible says that he will: A. Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28). B. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6). C. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4) D. Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will be King over all the world -- on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9). The historical fact is that Jesus fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies. Christians counter that Jesus will fulfill these in the Second Coming, but Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright, and no concept of a second coming exists. http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_messiah3.htm

Prophets, messiahs, mumbo jumbo. . .have you tried living in this life for a week or two? Messiah. Right. You might as well believe in vampires.

well if by Messiah you mean Jesus then here is my answer: The The Romans destroyed Solomon's temple in 70AD in Jerusalem. Then later the Jews were forced out of the Holy City. Christians started off and a small sect, meeting in each other's homes. Their central figure was Jesus Christ. Christians were a persecuted group at this time but they wanted to stay within the Jewish religion. The Christians tried to convince the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah that they have been waiting for. When that didn't work, then two religions went their separate ways. The Jews were being banned from their Holy City of Jerusalem by the Romans, and if Jesus was the Messiah, he would have freed them then as their prophecy foretold.

Luke’s account indicates that many Jews were anxiously expecting the Messiah to appear at the particular time Jesus was on earth. Simeon and other Jews were “waiting for Israel’s consolation” and “Jerusalem’s deliverance” when the babe Jesus was brought to the temple. (Lu 2:25, 38) During the ministry of John the Baptizer, the people “were in expectation” about the Christ, or Messiah. (Lu 3:15) Many, though, expected the Messiah to meet their preconceived notions. The prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures showed the Messiah as coming in two different roles. One was “humble, and riding upon an ass,” whereas the other was “with the clouds of the heavens” to annihilate opposers and have all rulerships serve him. (Zec 9:9; Da 7:13) The Jews failed to appreciate the fact that these prophecies related to two distinct appearances of the Messiah, these appearances occurring at widely separated times. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke2:25-26,38;Luke3:15;Zec%209:9;%20Dan%207:13;&version=AMP;NASB;CEV;DARBY;YLT; - - Jewish sources agree with Luke 2:38 that the people at that time were waiting for Jerusalem’s deliverance. The Jewish Encyclopedia observes: “They yearned for the promised deliverer of the house of David, who would free them from the yoke of the hated foreign usurper, would put an end to the impious Roman rule, and would establish His own reign of peace.” (1976, Vol. VIII, p. 508) They tried to make him an earthly king. (Joh 6:15) When he would not fulfill their expectations, they rejected him. http://bible.cc/john/6-15.htm - - Shortly before Jesus ascended to heaven, some of his faithful disciples asked him: “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?” Jesus’ answer implied that some time would elapse before the Kingdom would come. During that time, his followers would have a great work to do. They were to be witnesses of Jesus “both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the most distant part of the earth.”—Acts 1:6-8. Might also see Luke 19:11 and Luke 24:21. If I understand right, Messiah means anointed one or promised one. A person can be anointed by a God or by a King. Only Jesus fit the fingerprint. Psalms 45:7; Heb 1:9,1-13 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts1:6-8;Luke19:11;Luke24:21;Psalms%2045:7;%20Heb%201:1-13;&version=AMP;NASB;CEV;DARBY;YLT;/ - - Isaiah 53:3-9 "He was despised and was avoided by men, a man meant for pains and for having acquaintance with sickness. And there was as if the concealing of one’s face from us. He was despised, and we held him as of no account. Truly our sicknesses were what he himself carried; and as for our pains, he bore them. But we ourselves accounted him as plagued, stricken by God and afflicted. But he was being pierced for our transgression; he was being crushed for our errors. The chastisement meant for our peace was upon him, and because of his wounds there has been a healing for us. Like sheep we have all of us wandered about; it was each one to his own way that we have turned; and Jehovah himself has caused the error of us all to meet up with that one. He was hard pressed, and he was letting himself be afflicted; yet he would not open his mouth. He was being brought just like a sheep to the slaughtering; and like a ewe that before her shearers has become mute, he also would not open his mouth. Because of restraint and of judgment he was taken away; and who will concern himself even with [the details of] his generation? For he was severed from the land of the living ones. Because of the transgression of my people he had the stroke. And he will make his burial place even with the wicked ones, and with the rich class in his death, despite the fact that he had done no violence and there was no deception in his mouth. (Daniel 9:25-26) [And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes‧si′ah [the] Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks. She will return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times. “And after the sixty-two weeks Mes‧si′ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. “And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations.] For more information about the timing of the Messiah, see the following link. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1478245

The Jews have been presented with dozens of false Messiahs over the millenia. Many of these "Messiahs" almost led them to destruction. Really can't blame them for being wary of messianic claims. +2