Power belong to God and there is no power but of God. Ps 62:11, Rom 13:1. When we understand this truth we can then begin to see the judgments of God in a very different light. We can say with David
Psa 119:137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
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It was generally believed by the Jews that sin is punished in this life. Every affliction was regarded as the penalty of some wrongdoing, either of the sufferer himself or of his parents. It is true that all suffering results from the transgression of God’s law, but this truth had become perverted. Satan, the author of sin and all its results, had led men to look upon disease and death as proceeding from God,—as punishment arbitrarily inflicted on account of sin. Hence one upon whom some great affliction or calamity had fallen had the additional burden of being regarded as a great sinner. – {DA 471.1}
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