The Last Prophet of the Hebrew Canon, John the Baptist

Malachi is the last of the prophets in the Hebrew canon, right? He's the last prophet. And there hasn't been a message since Malachi until John the Baptist for several hundred years. So what they were looking forward to is realized in the arrival of John the Baptist. They all prophesy until John. If you are willing to accept it, he, John, is Elijah who is to come. But people like Herod, he's not going to understand with that coded message. That's why it's so important to understand the Old Testament, to understand Jesus and the new.