This quiz, Malachi, looks at the people of Israel.
The last of the Minor Prophets, and the last book in the Old Testament, is the Book of Malachi. It was written long after the temple had been completed, sometime around the year 430 BC. The prophet brings a message of judgement upon Israel for the people's continuing sin.
After the Book of Malachi, God's voice is not heard for 400 years before the next prophet, John the Baptist, announces the arrival of the long awaited Messiah.
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
This prophecy refers to John the Baptist who fulfilled the role of Elijah, as an angel informed John's father before his son was born.
Luke 1:15-17
"For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord"