The reasons for the Jewish belief in the non-arrival of the Messiah to date are too numerous to be placed here, where we shall provide only a selection. For a comprehensive review of the topic, we suggest "Their Hollow Inheritance" by Michoel Drazin (Feldheim Publishers). Here, though, are a few of the many reasons why the Jews feel do strongly about the coming of the Messiah:

He will swallow up death forever - Isiah 25:8. This argument is very hard to combat, because of the word forever. This, as we are painfully aware, has not yet happened.

Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and set fire to the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, handspikes and spears, and they will make fires of them for seven years. - Ezekiel 39:9. An end to war, and a renunciation of violence by all, which is yet to happen.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake: some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This resurrection of the dead would seem another hard argument to combat.

And say to them: "Thus says the Lord, G-d: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land". The very presence of the St. Andrews Jewish Society (in Scotland as opposed to Israel), verifies that this too has not yet been fulfilled.

These are just four of the many biblical arguments as to why the Messiah could not have yet come, as well as there being arguments for previous people's Messianic claims to be denied.