The Intertestamental Period: 400 Silent Years

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The Intertestamental Period400 Silent Years?

• Daniel 231-35

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400 Silent Years?

• God had stopped speaking through his prophets
• His preparing of his people for the Messiah
• is complete
• But Gods silence doesnt mean he isnt acting.
• Christians are often ignorant of this time period
• when so much of the world changed
• which separates the OT from the NT
• and just conclude it isnt important.

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400 Silent Years?

• These years are very important
• it lasts longer than the Kingdom of Judah did
• it changes the entire stage for the gospel
• Two trends happen here
• the world is quickly changing
• the Jews in Judah become entrenched

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The Fall of the Persian Empire

• Persian empire had began in 539
• by conquering Babylon.
• It had been the largest empire yet.
• It pushed west up against Macedonia

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The Fall of the Persian Empire

• Persian empire had began in 539
• by conquering Babylon.
• It had been the largest empire yet.
• It pushed west up against Macedonia
• until Alexander pushed back

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The Fall of the Persian Empire

• Persian empire had began in 539
• by conquering Babylon.
• It had been the largest empire yet.
• It pushed west up against Macedonia
• until Alexander pushed back
• In 323, the Greek empire was even larger.

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• Seleucus governed Babylonia
• to the north and east
• Ptolemy governed Egypt
• to the south and west

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The Jewish Diaspora

• The scattering of the Jews
• effected Asia Minor Greece,
• Egypt Babylonia
• and influenced thought, science, art culture
• The entrenched of the Jews
• fought Hellenism worldliness
• which was first just an attraction

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The Jewish Diaspora

• The scattering of the Jews
• effected Asia Minor Greece,
• Egypt Babylonia
• and influenced thought, science, art culture
• The entrenched of the Jews
• fought Hellenism worldliness
• which was first just an attraction
• but became an attack.

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• The dark detests the light.