Amos 8:11
“The days are coming, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I will send a famine through the land — not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.”
King James Version
Fulfillment References
Lamentations 2:9 1 Samuel 3:1 🏛 Between Testaments — 400 years of prophetic silence
Archaeological & Historical Evidence
The period between Malachi (c. 450 BC) and John the Baptist (c. AD 28) — approximately 400 years — is described by Jewish tradition as a period of prophetic silence.
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
JewishThe Intertestamental period of 400 years without a prophet fulfills this.
CatholicThe 400 years of silence ended with John the Baptist.
ProtestantThe silent centuries between Malachi and Matthew demonstrate the famine of prophecy.
DispensationalThe Church Age could be seen as another such 'famine' for Israel as the Gentiles receive the Word.
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