TEXT AND VIDEO-400 Years of Silence short version
400 Years of Silence short veRsion BETWEEN MALACHI AND MATTHEW Don Nydam WHY STUDY THE 400 YEARS BETWEEN MALICHI AND MATHEW? 1. Why talk about books that are not part of the Bible? 2. We don’t know enough about the Bible why study material not in the Bible? 3. Why talk about some books called the Apocrypha? 4. Why Talk About A Family Named Maccabees? 1. These books gives a clear insight into the spiritual, philosophical and intellectual life of Judaism in the period between Malachi and Mathew. 2. There is a period of 400 years when God did not speak by a prophet to people, what happened during that time period? 1. When the book of MALACHI closes you have a nation of people who are in love with idolatry, they want to worship the idols and gods of the heathen. They want to be as much like the world and the heathen as they can. They want to live by man’s law not the law of God. 2. But when you start the book of Matthew you find a nation of people wh