Herbert W Armstrong

AFTER GIDEON was dead and Israel had again started slipping into idolatry, one of Gideon's many sons schemed to become king of Israel. He was Abimelech, an overly ambitious young man who went to violent extremes to push himself into power. One of his first moves was to pay a band of vicious charac ...

The world is full of many man-devised idols of bizarre appearance. But only one God IS God! The world abounds with homespun ideas of God. Men prostrate themselves before carved stones, wood or even photographs. But in fact, most of that to which mankind has affixed the label "God" has fallen far sho ...

Following the Paris Peace settlement of 1763, it would have seemed that real peace could now settle down over America. But this was not to be. Peace was short-lived. When the Treaty of Paris was signed, the Thirteen Colonies were thriving. The population had risen to two and a half million — two mil ...

Here's WHY your PLAIN TRUTH has no subscription price, Here's WHY thousands of people from many nations feel they have a genuine part in CHANGING this world! This is a wretched world. Every thinking man and woman in America now knows that. And you know it. ...

Rome has fallen! The greatest power the world has ever known is trampled in the dust. The Empire that had conquered the world is herself conquered! Italy is overrun by Germanic tribes. Odoacer, a chieftain of the Germanic Heruli, has deposed the boy-monarch Romulus Augustulus. The great city is with ...

The old stationmaster heard all kinds of excuses from late passengers, but no excuse was to any avail. Here's a lesson about qualifying for the Kingdom of God. I ain't never seen the likes since I's been born - how the people keep a-comin' and the train's done gone." These were the wo ...

Have you ever tried moving around in the dark - total, pitch-black darkness - in a room that you are fairly well familiar with, and found you stumbled and bumped into everything? Or have you tried to go through your normal motions wearing a blindfold? If so you can probably begin to comprehe ...

THE WORLD is a drastically different place now than it was just a few years ago. It is far more dangerous. It is far more unstable. The old "balance of power" which kept the world from going over the brink into nuclear annihilation is gone. After World War II, the central fact in world pol ...

I have just received quite a shock. On picking up a financial report issued by the Financial Affairs Division, I was horrified to notice that for the month of March there was a loss of 23%, COMPARED to March of last year, in receipt of the SPECIAL OFFERINGS for the BUILDING FUND. On checking, I foun ...

Ladies and Gentlemen greetings, once again I want to ask you, do you know what is prophesied, to happen to the United States and that means to you and yours and I mean what is prophesied to happen perhaps in less than 10 years, perhaps more certainly within 20 years certainly and before the year of ...

God's begotten children are to manifest His love in their lives! Are you exhibiting this type of love? AT age 14 Todd Conner had an interest that surpassed even his enthusiasm for his high school football team. It was his baby brother Allen, born Oct. 7, 1975. Todd loved Allen a great deal and the ...

WHEN Gideon saw fire spitting up out of the rock on which he had placed food for his strange guest, the young Israelite was quite startled. He stared in awe as the food was swiftly burned to cinders after his guest had merely touched the rock with his staff. When he looked up he was even more startl ...

Evolutionists assure us all life, just as we know it today, EVOLVED, ever so GRADUALLY. But IF it did, HOW did it? Here is a baffling creature for evolutionists to gasp over - the ugly LUNG fish. He's a FISH, and yet he breathes air into a set of perfect LUNGS, and more than that, he ESTIVATES. Re ...

What is the truth about the predicted U.S. economic boom? Is prosperity just around the corner? How long will it last? President Johnson and his economic advisors are forecasting a nation-wide economic boom in the months ahead. Government economists predict the nation will, in the next year, spend m ...

Before your child's formal education begins, you will have a tremendous influence on his or her ability to learn. How much - and what - should a child know before he or she starts school? Your child's future success depends on how well you prepare him or her before formal education begins. Every ...