Herbert W Armstrong

One thousand years of Persian history is missing from today's history textbooks. Most writers begin their account of Persia about the time of Cyrus the Great. A few archaeological notes usually precede the story. But the real history of Persia (or Iran) for a thousand years before Cyrus has been d ...

Many modern Protestants have assumed that the Reformation was purely a religious movement. They see visions of multitudes of sincere men throughout Germany and Europe wholeheartedly seeking a return to Apostolic faith and practice. But this is not a true picture. It is an historical fact that there ...

Many are surprised to learn that the Bible says so much about ruling in the coming government of God on earth. Some doubt that" they could ever rule over people, while others have no desire to rule at all. Perhaps you have thought: But I don't want to rule in the world tomorrow. I just want t ...

Jesus Christ came to earth more than 1,900 years ago to announce the good news of the coming Kingdom of God. That Kingdom will rule over all nations, and the supreme ruler will be Christ Himself. But Christ will not rule all by Himself, while spirit-born saints take an eternal vacation. The Bible sh ...

Do miraculous healings really take place during religious revival meetings? What about so-called psychic healing? Does it actually work? What is behind the new surge of interest - even by medical researchers-in what many claim to be "faith healings"? "The blind see, the deaf hear, the lame ...

Ever attend a Political Convention? Ever listen in on a used-car salesman's pitch? Ever listen to builders, owners and architects haggle? Ever heard the method used in Real Estate sales? How much TRUTH did you hear? How much HONESTY? How much TRUST, FAITH, INTEGRITY? If this article sickens you - ...

"WE WANT A KING!", THE immense gathering of Israelites at Mizpeh in the autumn of the year had resulted in many thousands repenting and pledging themselves to greater obedience to God. (I Samuel 7:6.) It was the season of the Feast of Tabernacles. As soon as it was over the news came that ...

What is success? Is making a lot of money, and experiencing the pleasures of life, real success? Is achieving fame and fortune and status in the eyes of others true success? Let's learn what real success is from One whose life was the most outstanding success story of all time. What goal did Jesus ...

Here's how to think "BIG"! How to have real wisdom to make the right decisions. Read and USE these vital principles. Authorities now confess to "giant blunders" in coping with the twin threats of famine and over population and the growing danger of a hydrogen-bomb war. And that ...

Now this is the seventh of a series on the Seven Rules of Success. Do you know that everyone could be, should be, happy? You can't be very happy if your life is a failure. Why are most people unhappy? Why are most people failures? Most people do not apply a single one of these seven rules that are ...

Why "organization"? Isn't there something inherently evil in being "organized"? What is the Church? Why a "church"? Is the Church which Jesus built only a loosely connected, disorganized, autonomous group of local "churches" - or is it, according to the Bible, an organization? I'M NOT le ...

I must now report to you the most important situation you and I have ever faced together. I must RUSH this emergency letter to you — there is not time for many words. You and I have been called together, by God, to the most important mission of our time on earth — a most SPECIAL mission, actually fo ...

Pioneering in Public Opinion Polls: APPARENTLY the "Idea Man" trip from Des Moines to Atlanta and return ended along in April, 1914. It was then that the assignment as makeup man for The Merchants Trade Journal came, related in the beginning of the preceding chapter. This assignment, with a desk in ...

I wanted to write to you before coming to England—but now, alarming news from our business office in Pasadena makes it necessary that I write you an urgent message from London immediately. First, however, I simply MUST tell you of the surprise our staff over here had awaiting me, and of the progress ...

When you die, you are going straight to hell! Does that statement shock you? It shouldn't, or at least it wouldn't. It wouldn't, that is, if you knew that many times the word hell in the Bible means "the grave." But, sad to say, most people do not understand what the Bible says about ...