What an answer to prayer! God added fifteen years to the life of King 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, deliverance from a terminal illness!

And those bygone years … belonging to an age when God gave “signs” … watch what happened next: “And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. And this shall be a SIGN unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 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 38:6-8

(Today, with us having the completed Word of God, Old and New Testaments, God does not communicate as much in “signs,” but rather in the precious Revelation we call “Scripture.”)

But the “signs” God gave King Hezekiah are nonetheless thrilling! Confirming miracle number one: the Assyrians are gone! No more trouble from them! The Same God Who can heal bodies can also control the political landscape! (The next enemy Judah will face, the Babylonians, no longer the Assyrians!)

Confirming miracle number two: the sun will digress backwards, ten degrees! This Same God then can also control the world of astronomy. Amazing!

And, best I can tell, these two “signs” were God’s idea!

Wow!

Surely this occurrence illustrates to us the Significance/Importance God places in His Word, especially during these last days! (I believe there are no “signs” whatsoever pointing to the Rapture. By that I mean that great “Catching Away” could occur any minute, any second! Nothing remains to be “fulfilled” before that Event could transpire! The “signs” of Matthew 25 and 25 all relate to the literal Second Coming of Jesus to earth.)

Today here’s all we need to confirm God’s future plans. “Thus saith the Lord …!” The Bible, inspired Holy Writ! Infallible, we believe.

Be sure to take some time today and invest it in that Book. Pursue some daily (regimented) study program to better learn the Scriptures. Be often “in the Word.”

After all, it’s better than any system of “signs and wonders.” To this (ineffable) extent: “I will praise Thy Name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: FOR THOU HAST MAGNIFIED THY WORD ABOVE ALL THY NAME.” Psalm 138:2

Enough has been said.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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