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May 11, 2022 · Between the Old Testament's last words and the New Testament's first words, there are 400 years of silence where God didn't say anything to Israel. The question is, "why the silence?"
- Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Jan 4, 2022 · The 400 years of silence refers to the time between the Old Testament and New Testament, during which, so far as we know, God did not speak—no Scripture was written.
Jul 26, 2016 · At least four hundred years passed between the prophecies of Malachi (430-420 BC) and Matthew’s written account of Jesus’ life (50-60 AD). Those years were known as the Biblical Years of Silence, due to the lack of historical accounts in the Bible that describe the events during this significant gap in time.
Jan 4, 2022 · The time between the last writings of the Old Testament and the appearance of Christ is known as the “intertestamental” (or “between the testaments”) period. It lasted from the prophet Malachi’s time (about 400 BC) to the preaching of John the Baptist (about AD 25).
Timeline based on traditionally accepted timeframes and general consensus of a variety of sources, including Wilmington's Guide to the Bible, A Survey of Israel's History (Wood), The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (Thiele), ESV Study Bible, The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, and Easton's ...
Aug 26, 2022 · There are about 400 years between the last words of the Old Testament and the first words of the New Testament. Is this what explains that 400 years of silence? Was God actually silent for those 400 years?
Four hundred years is a long time. If we were to go back that far, we would be in 1612—the days of Pocahontas and Sir Walter Raleigh—and the year after first printing of the King James Version of the Bible. Thankfully, God did not remain silent forever.
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