by Ray Viola | Apr 22, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
If any couple were justified in living together, it certainly would have been Adam and Eve. After all, there were no other options. Also, they didn’t know about adultery or fornication because those sins didn’t exist yet. Thirdly, they were in the truest sense ‘made...
by Ray Viola | Apr 14, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
Ephesians 5:11-13 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever...
by Ray Viola | Mar 11, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
In Ecclesiastes 7:14 we are told, In the day of adversity consider. You can look up the word adversity for yourself in a Strong’s Concordance under #7451 (in the Hebrew) and you’ll quickly see that it is not referring to a picnic in the park. We’ve...
by Ray Viola | Mar 9, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
The Bible teaches us that in the last days mankind will be full of distress and perplexity. The word perplexity comes from a Greek word meaning no way out. In other words, things will be out of control. Things get out of control when they operate in opposition to...
by Ray Viola | Mar 7, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
Ezekiel 4:4-6 “Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,...
by Ray Viola | Mar 4, 2022 | Contemporary Issues
Psalm 97:1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. 1 Chronicles 16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. These 3 words, “The Lord reigns”, are the...