Herbert W Armstrong

Here is the third installment - revealing what really happened under Ezra and Nehemiah, and how the Government of God functioned in the Old Testament Church. THE religious condition of the Jews during the time of Christ had not evolved in just a few years. It took over 200 years for Judaism to firml ...

A MOST important milestone in the growth and history of Ambassador College is being passed. The Ambassador College Graduate School of Theology is being inaugurated with the first graduation in June, when A.B. degrees will be conferred upon pioneer students. With the graduate school in actual operati ...

Does religion have to be a "mystery" in order to be understood? No one truly understands the so-called "mystery of the Trinity." Some nevertheless insist their followers accept the doctrine, though admitting it is a mystery incapable of being understood! But Jesus said: "you shall know the ...

The beginning of the Sanhedrin, the origin of the "traditions of the elders," the usurpation of authority by laymen - these are discussed in this installment. IN previous installments we followed the Egyptian rule of Palestine until 198 B.C. In that year the Syrian kingdom on the north invaded and c ...

Mr. Portune named director, heads 50 coming campaigns - Directors hold conference - Vienna Symphony to open Auditorium - 103 brethren seen in India - The Official Grapevine - Fast-growing Indian Work shows promise for future - Over 20 million people affected in one of India's worst famines - Offic ...

This is the final installment in this intriguing, eye-opening series. Here is what our Church members should do if they have been Masons. FREEMASONRY is living proof that no teaching of man, regardless of how innocent or righteous appearing, can be taken for granted - that no teaching can be assumed ...

Take the United States, for example. More Americans attend church in an average week than attend all professional baseball, basketball, and football games combined in the average year. All athletic events of all kinds draw less than 1/ 15th as many people in a week as attend church. How did it come ...

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 ...

Question: Should Christians Serve On Juries? Answer: From time to time members are called upon by the courts to Serve on Juries. As jury members we place ourselves in a position - along with others - of passing judgment on fellow human beings. This means of arriving at a verdict is deemed fair in th ...

JAPAN AND CHINA SIGN HISTORIC TREATY China and Japan signed on August 12 an historic treaty of peace and friendship which brought to a successful climax years of torturous efforts aimed at ending diplomatic enmities born in war. In the treaty's most controversial clause, the two countries pledged ...

The election of a "born-again" Christian president has focused attention on the most significant movement among American Protestants. It has also tempted Evangelicals to become involved with the election of candidates as well as the election to grace. President Jimmy Carter unabashedly con ...

This is to announce a BRAND-NEW MAGAZINE! It is to fulfill a new and necessary purpose in carrying out our great commission. I want to tell you about it. Suppose God had called you, yourself, individually, to start His Work for this time — to think out the plans and ways to go about it, to preach an ...

Various church organizations and other groups deeply concerned over the State of California's violation of the Church's constitutional rights and freedoms, have been watching our case with increasing alarm. We now have before the nation's highest tribunal a special petition asking, in effect, ...

These verbal bombshells - from a Surrey vicar and a Free Church leader - highlight the sorry state of Britain's churches and their total failure to lead the British people. This failure is reflected only too well in the latest statistics and polls. The Central Board of Finance reveals only 4% of t ...

Man's survival capabilities are now being weighed in the balance. Many heads of state, scientists, futurists, ecologists and others of the intelligentsia have already found them wanting. Twentieth-century man is in a state of shipwreck and the prospects for viable lifeboats are very few indeed. Bu ...