Between the Testaments
In the four hundred years between Malachi and John the Baptist no prophet spoke, yet God ruled the empires as Daniel foretold, kept His people and His Word, and prepared the world for the coming of His Son.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
Trace the story from Malachi to Matthew, from Persia to Rome and Herod
Show how Daniel 8 and 11 foretold these events, and why Antiochus IV is both a fulfillment and a preview
Explain where the Pharisees, Sadducees, and synagogues came from, and what the feast of John 10:22 remembers
Say what the Apocrypha and the Septuagint are, and how we receive them
Explain what Paul means by the fulness of the time, and what God prepared for the coming of His Son