Isaiah 38
King Hezekiah had a boil and wasn’t recovering from it, so Isaiah went to him to tell him to get his house in order because he was going to die. However, he prayed and reminded God of his faithfulness. God heard his prayer and sent Isaiah to him, telling him that He would add 15 years to his life and, as a sign, turn the sundial back by 10 degrees. Here is an interesting note: God moved the sun back by 10 degrees from where it had gone down. Why doesn’t the Bible say that God stopped the rotation of the earth? It’s because we don’t rotate; we are fixed. However, the sun rotates around us, so in this case, God moved the sun back to prove that He was giving Hezekiah 15 more years of life.
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. Isaiah 38:5
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down. Isaiah 38:8
The enemy expects that we won’t read our Bible to find the “not so hidden” messages revealed in its pages, so he knows he can trick us into believing anything.
One of the main points of Isaiah 38 is that God hears our prayers, as he did for Hezekiah. Just as Hezekiah lived a life pleasing to God, we must also live our lives for Him and be ready at any moment He decides to call us home. We should revere God and offer daily praise and worship to Him. Hezekiah was a good man, and God honored him by answering his prayer.
As a side note, Isaiah told Hezekiah to put figs on his boil, and he would live. We must take the proper steps to assist in our own healing.











