Herbert W Armstrong

Just what is "The Church?" What is its object and purpose — its real mission? Is it an ORGANIZATION, or a spiritual ORGANISM, composed of those saints whose names are written in heaven, and who have, and are led by, the Holy Spirit? And, granting it is not just some one organization, ...ye ...

People will believe almost ANYTHINGI Hitler proved it. You may not have believed Hitler's lies - but how do you know what you believe is the truth? What is the REAL SOURCE AND AUTHORITY of your beliefs? STUDY this article - check up on yourself, and come to KNOW that you KNOW the Truth! During the ...

Oh, my friends. It's a good thing. There is a world tomorrow coming, and that the news of tomorrow's world is good because the news of today's world is so bad. And there is a cause for it all, and there will have to be a reason if there's going to be a better world tomorrow, whatever we sow, ...

We—and the whole world—are at a crucial turning point in the history of mankind. And in the life and work of God's Church! The death of Pope Paul VI may trigger a drastic, crucial and pivotal CHANGE in world affairs—and also in GOD'S WORK to which He has called you and me to be co-workers with C ...

Which books belong in the Old Testament? What about the Apocrypha? In this fourth installment you will learn how and by what authority the canon of the Old Testament was determined. THE LAST installment revealed how Ezra and Nehemiah reestablished God's Government in the Old Testament church. The ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - I AM writing a new book titled Mystery of the Ages. It will appear serially for the next several months in The Plain Truth. Why have I written this book? Why is it so important now? In this Personal I would like to explain. I have lived a long, active, interest-pa ...

The very first issue of the Plain Truth Magazine which came out with the February issue of 1934; and at that time it was - well it had the most humble beginning of any magazine that I know. Now the Plain Truth today has grown to one of the great mass circulation magazines of the whole world; but at ...

Have scientists found evidence that life evolved from dead matter? Are the first fossils simple and primitive as the theory of evolution demands? You and I are supposedly end products of an evolutionary process. This concept is taught as truth in almost all of our educational institutions today. But ...

Why were humans put here on the earth, how did we come to be here? We're not on Mars, there isn't anybody on Mars. We've had men on the moon, but they didn't stay there very long because when the oxygen they took with them wore out, they would die if they hadn't gotten back to the earth. T ...

Communism and "Christianity" bedfellows? Not quite, but both have one striking thing in common! What in the world could COMMUNISM have in common with interpreting the Bible? A great deal - only, very few have ever recognized it. Communism, of course, is many things. It is a doctrine, based ...

A MINISTER FOR HIRE, THE wandering Levite who had come to the home of Micah, an Ephraimite, was warmly welcomed. Micah immediately learned from which tribe the stranger had come and that his name was Jonathan. (Judges 17:5-8.) He had heard that Levites were especially suited to be priests, though he ...

I had not realized it before, but I find that somehow there seems to have been a supposition among some — more or less, I do not know to what extent — in the Ministry to assume that Church DOCTRINE is set by the Church. This is MOST IMPORTANT — for God commands through the Apostle ...

Nearly everyone has heard of the ancient pagan Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. But almost no one knows that they were originally great rulers of Italy. The whole modern Christian world has been influenced by Roman Catholicism. The story in pre-Roman times was the same. Instead of paganism spread ...

This is a long overdue tribute. A leader among us has been misjudged - maligned - persecuted and character assassinated. It's time I speak up. Brethren, sometimes I think we are poor judges. God says to us: "Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" ( ...

Personal discouragement and a feeling of worthlessness are hallmarks of our troubled times. A reader of The Plain Truth wrote, "I have often looked longingly at the guns hanging on my wall, and thought that maybe that would be the best way out." He wrote of feelings of "inferiority, guilt, and worth ...