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Chapter 7
SENDING SPECIFIC
DIVINE JUDGMENTS
ANSWER 2.
Some people will be infected with the coronavirus
as a specific judgment from God because
of their sinful attitudes and actions.
The fact that all misery is a result of the fall—
a result of the entrance of God-diminishing sin into the
world—does not mean that all individual suffering is a
specific judgment for personal sins. For example, Job’s
suffering was not owing to his particular sins. The very
first sentence of that book makes this clear: “Job . . . was
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