Herbert W Armstrong

Greetings from Pasadena. We are all fine here and in good health. The Personal Appearance Campaign, concluded here last night, went very well and we had about 550 average total attendance — even though we had earlier discouraged most of our Church people from coming. However, realizing that wi ...

The following article originally appeared in the Sept. 11 Pastor's Report, a publication for the worldwide ministry of the Worldwide Church of God. It is reprinted here for Good News readers on Mr. Armstrong's request. Fellow ministers, Satan tried again – God's Church has been through troubl ...

What will it be like once we are born into the family of God? What will we be doing? How long will it last? What is the purpose of it all? In this article we will explore some of the most awesome questions that the human mind can pose. PRESENT estimates - no doubt underestimates - put the ...

Can Protestants and Catholics get together in the coming Vatican Council? What does prophecy say will happen? Here's the startling answer in this sequel to last month's article. One stumbling block is keeping Protestants and Catholics from uniting. Protestants usually refuse to face it. It is th ...

Human beings have been given the wonderful gift of consciousness. We are aware of ourselves and our environment. We are able to appreciate the aesthetic beauties of the earth. We can readily perceive the past - or think we can - and the present and the future. We have the ability to perceive good an ...

AT THE TEMPLE young Michaiah heard Baruch read the scroll that he had written for Jeremiah. In it were dire warnings of trouble to fall on Judah just as had already fallen on Israel. Michaiah, grandson of the Levite prince Shaphan, who had been King Josiah's secretary and was friendly toward Jerem ...

AT THE TEMPLE young Michaiah heard Baruch read the scroll that he had written for Jeremiah. In it were dire warnings of trouble to fall on Judah just as had already fallen on Israel. Michaiah, grandson of the Levite prince Shaphan, who had been King Josiah's secretary and was friendly toward Jerem ...

GOD'S promise to Joshua to help in a second attempt to conquer the Canaanite city of Ai swiftly brought Israel's leader out of his state of discouragement. Joshua immediately chose thirty thousand soldiers for the strategy he had in mind. Well-planned Strategy; "I'm not sending you to directly ...

Do the latest proposals for a united Ireland offer any hope for peace in Ulster? How will the violence end? "Of course I want a united Ireland," said the young teacher in Londonderry. "But not with that lot down South," she added with scorn. That expresses one of the tragedies in ...

FACED by an army of thousands of Philistines, Saul was desperately anxious to know how to escape what appeared to be certain defeat of Israel's forces. (I Samuel 28:1-6.) Having received no signs from God, he decided to go to a certain sorceress, a woman who reportedly could talk with the dead. He ...

There are definite "keys" that can make your business - your family - your LIFE - more successful. Few know what they are! Why do many ASSUME that life should be drab, mediocre? Why, especially, do so many religious people assume God wants it that way? Where do people get these ideas? From ...

Here is vital knowledge making plain a husband's responsibility. Every man on earth needs this understanding! Her eyes flooded with tears, the woman before me began to shake and sob. Bending over with her face in her hands, she quietly moaned as she cried-finally catching herself, sitting upright ...

THE end came for Jabin, king of Hazor, only minutes after he ordered the gates closed. The thousands upon thousands of Israelites swarmed up to the walls with their triple-hook ropes, hurled the heavy hooks over the walls and surged up and into the city in such numbers and force that the relatively ...

Most people know very little, if anything, about the "Day of the Lord." Yet it is the focal point of all prophecy! The awesome events to take place during this time are described in more than 30 different prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments. Recall from our previous study that the heavenly ...

Here's an article written by Herbert W. Armstrong for the first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH, seven years BEFORE the magazine existed. It was never published. It appears now, 38 years later, for the first time. Recently, among old files, Mrs. Armstrong ran across the manuscript of an article written f ...