Hezekiah’s sickness, a message of death, an object lesson for mortals of all succeeding ages. Hezekiah prayed for life, pleading his good deeds. He received fifteen years lease of life, but misused the gift. “The God of David” — He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, therefore David must be raised from the dead (Luke 20:37, 38). In addition to prolonged life, God promised protection for Jerusalem, and deliverance from Assyria. But Hezekiah asked (2Kgs 20:8), “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord the third day?” He rendered not again according to the benefit done to him (2 Chron 32:25.)
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One