This article offers some interesting background and insights into the intestamental period between the last Jewish prophets and the Incarnation. A good illustration of how God’s timing is so different from ours, because He knows so much more than we do! From BibleStudyTools.com………..

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/how-400-years-of-silence-paved-the-way-for-the-messiah.html