Time is something only God controls. Our government can toy with it to cause undue stress on the people, but only God can make it speed up or slow down. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older that the time seems to go faster, but it seems to me that God has increased the speed of time right now. However, I’m not the only one feeling it; young people are feeling it, too. We know God can do anything, and He has. King Hezekiah was sick unto death, so Isaiah told him to get his affairs in order. The king turned towards the wall and prayed and reminded God of all the good he had done. Side note: maybe when we pray for our healing, we should give God a list of the good things we have done. God told Isaiah to tell Hezekiah that he would give him another fifteen years, and the sign of that happening would be that the sun would go back by 10 degrees and then return to the right position. King Hezekiah then proclaimed that he would use his time to praise God because who can praise God when they are rotting in the grave? I always tend to change directions when I hear such statements and have to look again for evidence that our souls go to heaven and are continually praising God without our bodies. Fixing this in my mind is hard when you read a verse pointing to death.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. Isaiah 38:18
Not to worry, here is a verse showing our souls go to heaven:
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7
About the time:
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Isaiah 38:8