Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you're reading a print Bible, it may have been challenging to flip backwards so far today from where we were in Isaiah.

We've been reading Isaiah's prophecies about Israel

being taken captive by Babylon, but that hasn't happened yet. He was foretelling it, but we're

still about 100 years off from when it actually happens, which means we have a few final kings

to meet. Today we read the story of King Hezekiah's downfall. And if this all feels familiar to you,

it should, because we read it about a week ago in Isaiah 38 on day 206. As a refresher, Hezekiah starts out as a 10 on the following

God scale, but plummets down to like a two in his final years. During the early years of his reign,

he was reestablishing worship and feasts, tearing down high places,

and generally not missing a step. But then at one point, he gets sick, and God sends Isaiah to tell him it's time to die.

He's torn up about it. He begs God to let him live, and God says, okay, you can have another 15 years.

Just put some smashed up figs on your boil so you can

recover. Before we move on in his story, let's investigate this a little bit, because it seems like

God said something would happen and it didn't happen. So there are a couple of things that could be

going on here. A, God changes his mind. Or, B, God's plan all along was to let Hezekiah live another 15 years, and Isaiah's

words of warning and Hezekiah's prayer were both working in tandem to accomplish God's plan.

Option A, God changes his mind. Does that happen? Numbers 2319 is one of the many places in

scripture that seem to rule that out as an option.

It says,

God is not man that he should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind.

Option B makes a lot more sense to me with everything we know about God so far.

First of all, we know that God often sends prophets to give a call to repentance

...