The Silent Years: From Malachi to Matthew

Share a comment Four hundred years sit between Malachi and Matthew, and that “blank page” is anything but empty. We walk through the intertestamental period to see how Israel’s world changes while God’s written revelation goes quiet and why that matters when Jesus arrives on the scene. We trace the major headlines that shape the New Testament background: Persia fading, Alexander the Great reshaping the region through Hellenization, and Koine Greek becoming the common language that later carr...