General Facts About Affliction - 1

. God regulates it according to the law of saving and reaping -

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.

Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom  for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,  but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

. He determines the length –

Genesis 15:13-14

Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years  your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved  and mistreated there.   But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out  with great possessions

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,  suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last
f your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Isaiah 10:25

Very soon  my anger against you will end and my wrath  will be directed to their destruction. ”

Jeremiah 29:10

This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years  are completed for Babylon, I will come to you  and fulfil my good promise  to bring you back  to this place.

. Not silent willingly –

Lamentations 3:33

For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.

. Men born in affliction –

Job 5:6-7

For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.