Herbert W Armstrong

Here we are in the very thick of the most frenzied Christmas shopping splurge in American history. Unemployment has gone to a new LOW. People are enjoying incomes at record levels —they have more money to spend than ever before—and they are in a spending mood right now—with this "Christmas spir ...

Recently in the news, warnings of a nuclear winter. Now, we're warned that a nuclear war would produce an earth-covering cloud. It would cover the entire earth, anywhere from one to maybe 3 billion people would be destroyed by the nuclear weapons themselves, and the rest would starve to death beca ...

The 12 disciples might well have felt some apprehension, though they may not have said anything, when Jesus announced to them that He was going to visit His mother. It was in Nazareth, after all, that the leaders of the synagogue had wanted to kill Him. Jesus, however, seemed unworried about possibl ...

WHY has this world's "Christianity" failed to understand the purposes of sex revealed in the Bible? Do you know why God created humans male and female? Do you know that God did not have to make humanity as He did if reproduction were His only purpose? God was the first great sex educator ...

In Genesis 1:1 we are told that "God created the heaven and the earth." But physical matter - this earth, the stars, the galaxies - was not the first thing God created. 1. What did God create before bringing the material universe into existence? Job 38:4·7. What are these "stars"? Rev. 1:20. In Job ...

Here is a revealing article-showing how to overcome "the pulls of the flesh" - how to gain victory over human nature! Here is how you can eradicate SIN from your character and develop Godly WILLPOWER! WHY ARE some neglecting prayer? Why do some let down in their Bible study, become lax in ...

In this age of Lunar Landing, Skylab, the technology and science millions have, it seems, lost their heads over demonism, satanism, witchcraft, and the occult. This is the age of the dawning of Aquarius and the age of the waning of science or at least so it seems with millions upon millions of peopl ...

ONCE A COUPLE are 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 at facts unconsidered in the almost univ ...

JACOB'S efforts to escape his angry brother, Esau, were in vain. Esau didn't pursue him after all. Instead, he tried to please his parents, after leaving his first two wives, by marrying a third who wasn't a Canaanite. Unfortunately, she was from Ishmael's family. That still wasn't very pl ...

GREETINGS! It has become custom for me to write a special personal letter at this time every year, to you who are subscribers to The Plain Truth, to personally THANK YOU for your interest, and offer you (free of course) something special. Hundreds write me asking personal questions, about myself and ...

Well greetings friends, this is Herbert W Armstrong with the good news of the World Tomorrow. Let's get back now to the outline of prophecy. What's going to happen? Prophecy shows that another power — least suspected by the world now — will suddenly skyrocket into gigantic world power. A swift-m ...

Did it ever occur to you to wonder why so many people make a failure in life? Is there, after all a reason for it? Are there any fixed basic rules, or principles of success? When I was a young man of twenty-three, I was on the editorial staff of a national magazine. They gave me the title of 'The ...

Where can you find words to describe today's world? Problems bubble, seethe and then explode in every corner, in every direction. Where are the phrases to capture the feeling of the massive megaproblems that have pushed us to the brink of annihilation? Where are the principles that will guide us e ...

How often have you taken your car in for repairs, paid the bill and then, a week later, found that the repairs either weren't made properly or weren't done at all? In anger, you call the place of repair and complain. The manager testily retorts: "If you don't like it, sue us!" Or per ...

THIS ENTIRE WORLD IS IN CRITICAL NEED OF A NEW STYLE OF LEADERSHIP. And tomorrow's leaders come from the young people of today. Are you a teen-ager? Then you are involved. You are involved in history. Just as the United States and Britain found themselves face to face with horrible odds in two wor ...