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1. If he is killed, before fulfilling the role of the Messiah, then he wasn't the Messiah.

2. and 3. If that happens, then it happens and we'll go from there. A lot of Jewish views on the Messiah, as well as the afterlife are that it's interesting to speculate, but really irrelevant to how one lives one's life. You live your life as righteously as you can. When you get to the Messianic age or the afterlife, you deal with it then.

When I was in college, I sometimes went to services at Chabad House -- the ultra-Orthodox outreach group. Being a science fiction fan, I once asked the Rabbi about life on other planets.

"We don't know," replied the Rabbi. "When we get there, we'll see what's there. Then we'll figure out what it means." I've always liked that he said, "When we get there," not "If we get there." (I figure that the first group of people to colonize other planets will be the scientists and engineers. The second group will be a Lubavitch Rabbi and his family to set up a Chabad House to promote more observation by the Jews among the scientists and engineers.)

There's a saying I've heard: "If you are planting a tree and someone tells you the Messiah has come, finish planting the tree. Then go see if it's truly the Messiah."

Agreed...That the Afterlife and the End of this World is still a huge mystery for all people....I have interest in just following the Current Events in the World to see if there is any validity in End Times Prophecy....

As far as life on other planets....I think the government knows more about that then what they say...Roswell for instance...

I was doing some research of "Where is Heaven located" some scholars say that it is in a different dimension, our understanding of time is totally different from G-d's.

One thing I do believe is that when it's all over There will be no more "Religion" people have truly tore that word apart, more people have died in the name of Religion than anything else. I think G-d has a different design for people in the next realm of our exsistence...