Herbert W Armstrong

The population explosion and the threat of widespread famines in the near future are real. World leaders, prominent scientists, and people who have troubled themselves to study the problem are deeply concerned. Newspapers, magazines and professional journals carry articles on a regular basis discuss ...

I am enclosing your annual receipt for the tithes and offerings you have sent for God's Work during the year 1979. Separate receipts have been made for the Church and for Ambassador College. With all my heart I thank you, on behalf of Jesus Christ, the living HEAD of this Church of God. We are beg ...

VIRTUE IS REWARDED, RUTH, the young Moabite woman, had real affection for Boaz, the wealthy, elderly Israelite grain grower. She hoped that Boaz would marry her. Baaz, who himself was probably a widower, hoped that it would be that way, too. But there was another man in Bethlehem who was more closel ...

This month we published another issue of The PLAIN TRUTH. Therefore, as I did two months ago, I send you The GOOD NEWS in the form of this Good News LETTER. And it is G O O D N E W S ! In ways exceeding our wildest dreams, God is proving, more this year than any so far, that this is HIS work, sparke ...

Engagement - and Wedding Night. ONCE A COUPLE IS ENGAGED TO BE married - then what? What should be their standard of conduct? Virtually everybody, today, would assume that "necking" is completely within the bounds of propriety after a definite engagement. But is it? Let's look rationally ...

Depression Strikes! SHORTLY after our second daughter, Dorothy, was born, I persuaded my younger brother, Russell, then twenty, to come back to Chicago and join me in the advertising business. He had been employed in an office job with the Portland Gas & Coke Company in Portland, Oregon. ...

WHERE SHALL We find that mysterious number 666? Does the pope wear it on his crown, identifying him as the BEAST of Revelation 13? Or must we look for it elsewhere? Here are all the Scriptures speaking directly of this number; "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the nam ...

Stuck in Astoria: AFTER the Krohn & Carson experience forced their main clothing-store competitor to break its 5-year contract, other stores gradually began cautiously to put a limited amount of advertising in The Messenger. This drove our opposition publisher to adopt a new type of competition. ...

Apparent contradictions and other Bible difficulties are due mainly to carelessness in reading the Bible. This article shows how many difficulties can be solved by studying more carefully. WHY DO people misunderstand the Bible? Once you understand what your attitude should be toward Bible study, and ...

ONE HUNDRED and two men of the army of Israel had been burned to death by lightning. They had defied God and attempted to arrest Elijah and to take him to Samaria. (II Kings 1:1-12.) When fifty more approached the prophet, their captain fell to his knees before Elijah and asked for mercy. Soldiers L ...

For thousands of years man has marveled at the mysteries of the starry heavens. Today he scans the universe, awestruck by its fathomlessness-yearning as never before to understand where he fits in the cosmos. What secrets lie beyond the distant realm of the spiral nebulae? Is there life out there? O ...

It's time we take notice. The trend is now unmistakable. You need to understand what it means! Suddenly the United States no longer enjoys the highest per capita income of any nation. Sweden has now risen above us. The United States' world's highest living standard has started on the way down. ...

Apparent contradictions and other Bible difficulties are due mainly to carelessness in reading the Bible. This article shows how many difficulties can be solved by studying more carefully. WHY DO people misunderstand the Bible? Once you understand what your attitude should be toward Bible study, and ...

A serious emergency has arisen in respect to the coming Feast of Tabernacles, September 19 thru 27th. Brother Roy Hammer called me on the long distance telephone about it the other day and I was forced to make a quick and decisive decision. 1st) We have entirely outgrown the rest-room facilities ser ...

Volcanic activity is a present threatening danger around the world. Thousands have perished this year in fiery agony! Here's what prophecy reveals - together with an eyewitness account of a presently erupting volcano! The "Ring of Fire" is aflame again! Over THREE HUNDRED presently activ ...