Herbert W Armstrong

"Every year newspapers and magazines comment that Christmas is not Christian in origin. Is this true?" Answer: Many commonly assume that Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. But anyone who has studied the matter knows this is not the case. Consider, for a moment, what Catholic ...

God has given us significant and important victories very recently. He has opened new and extremely important doors for conveying His Gospel message to NEW AUDIENCES in NEW AREAS! He has delivered us, for the time being, from the foreboding State of California lawsuit that hung like a foreboding clo ...

Let's face it, our humanness causes most of our problems. We are bundles of potential problems looking for a place to happen. One of those deep problems of human nature is bitterness. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul deals with the "gut" issues of unity, theft, lying, malice and to p ...

I am sending you, separately by regular mail, the semi-annual letter being mailed at this time to the entire mailing list of The PLAIN TRUTH. It offers them—and YOU, too, of course—Volume V of the Bible Story and, in addition, a newly reprinted copy of Volume I. I'm sure you will want your free co ...

DARWIN, Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Stalin! Just five men. Yet each in his own time profoundly altered the course of world history. Charles Darwin developed a theory of evolution - and now nearly all modern education is based on that unproven, unfounded premise. Hitler bathed Europe and Africa in blood - a ...

Israel Comes to Egypt; Everyone is familiar with the story in the Bible of how Jacob and his children came to Egypt where Joseph was. But history books do not tell when this occurred. Nor do they explain how this event fits into the history of Egypt. The coming of the Israelites had an important and ...

THE NAPOLEONIC attempt to restore the Roman Empire in the West is but a short-lived success. Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo in 1815 sends the onetime master of Europe into lonely exile on the rocky island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic. And his dream of a unified Europe follows him into ...

Chemical warfare, nerve gases, biological toxins, atom bombs and thermonuclear warheads are lethal weapons. But there is another weapon which has destroyed the lives of far more people than all of these put together! WHAT is the world's most devastating weapon? Most people would probably say the H ...

What will it "feel like" to be eternal? What does inherent life (John 4:14; 5:26) really mean? This is the most awesome quality any human being could possibly hope to attain. And God the Father and JESUS Christ want to share it with us. ISAIAH 57:15 contains one of the most incredible phras ...

Today's religious customs do not come from the Bible! Here are the facts of their origin! Synopsis: The preceding articles have revealed amazing facts which most people are afraid to face! An impelling force-Satan-working behind the scenes and before Christ's time, caused surprising, counterfeit ...

INTERNATIONAL DESK - They didn't know each other, but in late October 1933, two editors sat not far from here putting their publications together. The editor of the Jefferson Review never claimed his newspaper to be one of the world's major newspapers. Its job in the Great Depression was, once a ...

Here we are at the end of the SHORTEST MONTH of the year! I must rush this emergency letter to you, for in one more day this month will be gone. First, the new magazine for all our Co-Workers is coming along. We now hope to send you Volume I Number I by or before April 1st. We are not yet completely ...

You are in a war! Your eternal life depends on the outcome! Read in this article what and how to fight. EVERYBODY likes a fight. No one knows this better than movie producers. That's why nearly every western, spy thriller, or even comedy situation has its fight scene. In many cases the picture bui ...

Never has our faith been so severely tried. This financial "tight squeeze" not only is still on — it is squeezing harder than ever before. Physical APPEARANCES make the situation look hopeless! LISTEN! I have to ask every one of you to take this to heart. On the one hand, a flood of wonder ...

History knows, in general, that the Gauls are the true ancestors of the French; but there again, there are very divided opinions on the origin of this Celtic people. Who then were the Gauls? Where did they come from? What is their true origin? What were their characteristic traits, their customs, th ...