From the time God created the first man, God began speaking to all men. For over one thousand years, God had been speaking and revealing Himself to different people at different times and different places. He spoke to Moses as he wrote the first five books of the Bible. He gave psalms to David, proverbs to Solomon and prophecy to the prophets. For over one millennia God had spoken practically nonstop. Then, when the last prophet named, Malachi wrote his last words and put his pen down, God for the first time in over a thousand years went silent.

For the longest period of time since Moses was alive, God did not say anything else to anyone. For four hundred years there was neither a godly grunt, nor a heavenly hiccup - nothing but dead silence. Then after four centuries, God opens His mouth…