Herbert W Armstrong

This, again, is an EMERGENCY S.O.S.! I have had to be delayed almost a month in sending you this letter. When you don't get a letter from me, many of our Co-Workers stop sending in tithes and offerings for God's great work. Result? Receipt of money for the work is now dropping off alarmingly! An ...

THIRTY-NINE years had passed since two million Israelites had fled from Egypt to escape their oppressors. (Numbers 1:1; Numbers 13:1-3, 26; Deuteronomy 2:14.) Because they usually chose the way of sin, thousands upon thousands had died of war and sickness. Only a few of the many adult men who had st ...

Just who were the Pharisees and where did their religious doctrines originate? In the Old Testament? If so, why did Christ so strenuously oppose their ideas? Is the Bible — both Old and New Testaments — a house divided? An examination of the period "between the Testaments" shows that while ...

Question: "My son and daughter are of high school age. What instruction should I give them regarding dating and the modern custom of 'going steady'? I know they need the benefits of social contact with those of the opposite sex for their personality development, yet I recognize the danger o ...

ETERNAL judgment! It scares some. Eternal judgment? It makes others laugh. To the religious, the foreboding threat of "eternal judgment" portends a fearful apprehension of a stern judge condescendingly looking down from a majestic throne upon a quaking skeleton of a person who is barely a ...

The Ways of Cain and Seth; The first family's brief experience in the Garden of Eden was over. Now Adam and Eve had to start a new life in much less desirable environment. What were the events and developments at the very beginning of earliest pre-flood society? Cain and Abel; The bible continues ...

Fellow Ministers, Satan tried again - God's Church has been through troublous times these past few months - but the Head of God's Church, Jesus Christ, was interceding for us - and thanks largely to you ministers, the Church has come through stronger than ever! I simply cannot find words to adeq ...

On a bleak December afternoon, I was walking in the graveyard of the parish church of Lutterworth in England, about 90 miles northwest of London. The rector walked past as I was examining the church's ancient slate gravestones bearing the names of faithful parishioners of centuries past. ...

When, according to the Bible, did dinosaurs exist? Why did they all perish? Here are the surprising answers. ONE of the greatest mysteries in historical geology is the extinction of the bizarre dinosaurs. The sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs and other contemporary reptiles has excited scientist ...

How I Met My Wife: IN the chronicle of experiences that provided the training for the activities of later years, none exceeded in import the dating experiences that culminated in marriage - at least none exceeded the marriage experience. If it be true, as it definitely appears now in retrospect, tha ...

I can't hold back the truth from you any longer. I have to tell you we have reached the breaking point — the extreme LIMIT — in this tight squeeze holding on to the powerful net-work broadcast! Unless God now performs a MIRACLE thru you co-workers, we cannot carry on another week! I shall have to ...

Can Protestants and Catholics get together in the coming Vatican Council? What is the CAUSE of division in the Christian world? What is the SOURCE OF UNITY? Here's the startling answer! The dramatic decision of Pope John XXIII to call a universal Church Council burst upon the public on January 25, ...

Mr. Armstrong is sending a letter to our brethren and Co-Workers informing them that every current indication is that we should continue to publish Quest Magazine as one of the major activities of the Ambassador Foundation. Personally, I am delighted with this news! Right from the time the first con ...

Who was the daughter of Pharaoh who adopted Moses? Where is Moses mentioned in the story of Egypt? Who was that Ramses whose land Jacob was given to dwell in? Which Pharaoh took Sarai from Abram? Thus far only half the story of Egypt before the Exodus has been told. The first eight dynasties have to ...

A KING IS CHOSEN! WHEN SAMUEL saw Saul for the first time, God informed Samuel that this was the powerful young Benjamite who would become the leader of Israel. Saul didn't know who Samuel was, though God had caused him to walk up to Samuel and inquire where the chief of Israel could be found. (I ...