Herbert W Armstrong

GREETINGS! Here we are again, racing the test of the Christmas shopping season. Just as our revitalized Television program is beginning to take hold on the public — just as we enter the stiffest crisis of this financial tight squeeze, we come to the season when people FORGET their gifts for Christ a ...

"Beware of 1985!" warns Boardroom Reports magazine. Why? More and more the world economy demands careful attention. High interest rates, crushing Third World debt, high unemployment levels, slumping core industries such as automotive and steel, a U.S. debt topping $1,000 billion, the chron ...

Along with the Festival season come many opportunities to meet new friends and to renew old acquaintances. In this article you will not only learn how to strengthen these friendships, but how to build and develop all your relationships with others. "You always hurt the one you love." So goes th ...

Conferences are being held to assess the role of the U.N. in its first 40 years. ON OCTOBER 24, political leaders from around the world will assemble at the United Nations headquarters in New York to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the official beginning of the world body. The celebration is par ...

CONQUEST OF BETHEL AND AI, God's promise ro Joshua to help in a second attempt to conquer the Canaanite city of Ai swiftly brought Israel's leader out of his State of discouragement. Joshua immediately chose thirty thousand soldiers for the strategy he had in mind. Well-Planned Strategy. "I ...

PROMISED LAND OCCUPIED, THE end came for Jabin, king of Hazor, only minutes after he ordered the gates closed. The thousands upon thousands of Israelites swarmed up to the walls with their triple-hook ropes, hurled the heavy hooks over the walls and surged up and into the city in such numbers and fo ...

Is smoking hazardous to health? What are the ODDS of getting lung cancer or heart disease, if you smoke? Why do MILLIONS smoke despite dire warnings? It is time you knew the answers - they could save your LIFE! I WAS ONE of the fellows who walked a mile for cigarettes for 40 years. Results - no voca ...

Well, greetings friends! This is Herbert W. Armstrong with the Good News of the World Tomorrow. Yes. There is good news ahead and yet there is bad news ahead and that's the paradox. There's no good news today. There isn't going to be any good news in the immediate future. And yet, just turn on ...

The plain truth is a little shocking - and illuminating! Nothing is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most people who attend church regularly, or even occasionally, would be really surprised if they should probe into their own minds far enough to ask WHY they go, and ju ...

Can you believe it? — another year has flashed by; another year of world troubles, overthrow of more governments, increasing violence and crime — whisking us rapidly into and through the END time of this present evil world. We now have little time left to finish God's Work. In my last letter (Nove ...

YESTERDAY, as I write, Mrs. Armstrong and I celebrated our forty-ninth wedding anniversary. There's nothing special about a forty-ninth anniversary, as such-except, as Mr. Gerald Waterhouse, PLAIN TRUTH regional Editor for The Philippines, might point out, it is seven periods of seven years each, ...

"In the beginning... God said, Let us make man in our image…in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them…heirs together of the grace of life…that as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." God never intended there be any "battle o ...

For the first 2000 years of human history, Africa — and Egypt in particular — was the vortex of world politics. Today Africa is militarily a void. Its native population borders on savagery in many areas. Its culture is universally primitive. Egypt and Ethiopia — once the world's leaders — are toda ...

The Feast of the Nativity of St. John is set down in the Papal calendar for the 24th of June, or Midsummer-day. The very same period was equally memorable in the Babylonian calendar as that of one of its most celebrated festivals. It was at Midsummer, or the summer solstice, that the month called in ...

Could God trust you to rule a galaxy? Here is a fascinating glimpse of the future! What and where will you be one billion centuries from now? Will you be dust and ashes, long since gone and forgotten? Or - ? Today, planet Earth is our home. It is a unique place. But it is not the only place. From he ...