by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 4, 2024 | Selah
John wrote an account of the battle of Armageddon—the last great battle before Jesus returns to earth. Our God is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. As we get closer to the end of the Revelation narrative, we will see God working out His plan from beginning...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 3, 2024 | Selah
John described a vision of heaven where he saw people, that were martyred for the faith, sitting underneath the throne of God—so near to Him, so safe beneath Him. Those that have run the race and gone on to eternal glory have a very different perspective from the one...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 2, 2024 | Selah
In today’s passage, an angel cries out, “Babylon has fallen!” In the Bible, Babylon represents man’s rebellion against God. The leader of this rebellion against the Holy One is The Antichrist, otherwise known as The Beast. His strategies will ultimately fail, because...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 2, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Special Occasions
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. I remember singing the chorus when I first came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ: “Rise up O men of God, Have done with lesser things, Give heart and soul and mind and...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Sep 1, 2024 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
Hebrews 10:11-14 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; … For by one offering...