Herbert W Armstrong

Will the next decade or two bring human EXTINCTION - or will Century 21 dawn on a WORLD OF PEACE, with incredible scientific achievements? SUDDENLY this world has become different! It was never like this before. LOOK at the change in the last 70 years - then LOOK at the change in the last TEN. What ...

LEARNING TO BE A KING, TO SHOW his appreciation to Abner for helping unite Israel and for bringing Michal to Hebron, David prepared a feast for him and his men. Thus David's first wife was at long last given back to him, and at the same time Abner had the vengeful satisfaction of ruining Ish-boshe ...

The letter was written by a young boy named Peter. He had been taught about God — told God would protect, preserve, heal. But his brother, Tommy, was dead. Why? Why does God allow tragedy? Why do innocent babies suffer? Why the caprice of tornado, hurricane or typhoon? Why, if there is a God, does G ...

Blizzards, rampaging floods, lashing hurricanes whipping up waves the height of seven-story buildings. Something is DRASTICALLY WRONG with the weather! What does it all mean? SCREAMING headlines are pointing up alarming changes in the weather. "Century's Worst Cold Wave Smashes South," "Blizzards ...

Paradoxically, millions of our people live in fear of crime. Still, attitudes toward criminals continue to soften - some crimes are so sensationalized the culprits are virtually praised as heroes. What's happening to old-fashioned indignation against wrongdoing? This article probes current trends, ...

WHEN Jonathan overran a Philistine garrison, King Saul called for men to come to Gilgal to get ready for war with the Philistines. Thousands of Israelites obeyed the summons. (I Samuel 13:1-4.) But when they learned that a huge fighting force of enemy foot soldiers, horsemen and charioteers was appr ...

I would like to announce something that gives me great pleasure. I had a choice of announcing it at the end of my talk or at the beginning, but it is the kind of thing that I don't want to postpone announcing even that much. My daughter Carol, whom Mr. Armstrong married last June at our home i ...

Man would like to get rid of the Bible. He's tried. for some reason, however, that ancient Book refuses to roll over and play dead. It keeps on impartially proclaiming, "Here is Truth," in face of a barrage of criticism unparalleled in the history of literature. There are those who will tell you t ...

DAVID — VAGABOND KING! TO TRY to impress on Israel that death would befall anyone who gave aid to David, Saul ordered the execution of the priests of Nob, although only Ahimelech, the high priest, had helped David. Saul then sent the executioners, led by Doeg the Edomite, to kill all the other peopl ...

If the Bible truth were known, thousands would never have "chosen" the ministry as their profession! Should you teach, preach, or "witness" for the Lord? How does God call His true ministers? "I've been called to preach!" said the eager young man to the elder pastor. ...

MORAL DIFFICULTIES: The so-called "moral difficulties" are some of the most perplexing ones found in the Old Testament. They include the practice of slavery, polygamy, warfare and acts of treachery, deception and cruelty. But they can be solved by applying a few basic principles. ...

Every month, the work's Editorial Services Department receives hundreds of letters from readers responding to the Church's publications. The majority are positive and complimentary; they come from people who are thrilled with the truths they are discovering and who want to express their apprecia ...

THE GRAND smash climax of six thousand years of human experience is upon us! World news events are rapidly fitting together into the breath-taking and ominous picture that God foretold thousands of years ago! We in God's Church have the opportunity of being right on the scene - on the inside as it ...

It is natural to sympathize with the underdog - the fellow who is persecuted or "picked-on." Let US understand again how this applies in God's Church. HAVE you ever had what is known as a "suffering hero" complex? Chances are, you probably have. Most of us have it once in a great while, but quickl ...

In our study of statements linking Peter with Rome by the early ecclesiastical writer, we come now to the first of the Latin writers, Tertullian, a Carthaginian whose works were done in the first quarter of the third century. It is from this Western presbyter that we receive the most definite statem ...