What is noteworthy about God's Prophetic Word Through Malachi is that this was God's last word to mankind before the coming of His Son from Heaven to earth. After God gave this word, He was silent for over 400 years! And now through Malachi, He announces that His Son was about to come to earth, not once, but twice, and that there would be a messenger before each coming of His Son, with John the Baptist being so at His first coming, and with Elijah being so at His second coming!