Herbert W Armstrong

The Work of God in this Philadelphia era was introduced into southern Africa in 1954 when the World Tomorrow program began to be broadcast over Radio Lourenço Marques in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique. This broadcast continued until 1972, while the mailing list of The Plain Truth increased ...

GOLIATH CHALLENGES GOD! SAUL was very unhappy. He had lately felt a great emptiness, as though the future held only disappointment for him. Nothing pleased him. A distrust of his friends and acquaintances grew in his restless mind. He kept remembering Samuel's remark about God rejecting him as kin ...

For the moment, the news headlines continue to be dominated by events in the Middle East. With the rejection of the Camp David accords by the other Arab states to one degree or another, it looks more and more now that Egypt will proceed to sign a separate peace treaty with Israel. President Sada ...

Ants are our most familiar, and pesky, insects. Whether you live in Australia or Austria, in Britain or Bloemfontein you could discover ants in your home - or find them trying to carry off your picnic lunch! Evolution is completely BAFFLED by the ant world. Ants are the most illogical creatures in t ...

Troy was an ancient fort-city occupied from antiquity into Roman times. Troy was as important in early trade routes as Suez or Singapore were in the nineteenth century to the far-flung British Empire. Each people who possessed political control of Troy remoulded the city after its own image. Nearly ...

QUESTION: "What did Jesus mean by saying, 'Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come'? (John 2:4.) Also, since it was His mother He was talking to, why didn't He address her as 'mother'? Does this conflict with the commandment: 'Honor thy father and mother' ...

Why is the United States the most violent nation on the face of the earth? You know, the most violent people on earth are not the savage tribes of the African Congo or the primitive inhabitants of the Australian bush country. Do you know that no other nation on the face of the earth has a worse reco ...

All of us bear the image of the God who created us. If all of us realized what that meant, the world would be a far different place in which to live. so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them... And God saw everything that he had made, a ...

Perhaps you are not aware of it, but according to statistics mankind has been involved in more than 13,500 wars since time began, an average of more than two wars for every year since God created I the first couple. Adolph Hitler defined peace as "an abnormal state between two wars"! Just s ...

First Vision of Worldwide Work. THE "lean years" continued through 1938 and the succeeding decade. It was a constant struggle and hardship. Growth seemed so very slow. Yet, viewed today in retrospect, expansion has been consistently rapid. Occasional setbacks were discouraging. But the forgings ahea ...

Many confuse meekness with weakness. Others put on a "false front" of humility. Few understand TRUE humility! Read this article and find out how you can grow in proper humility. LOOK around you. Everywhere you look in this modern world, you see the signs of vanity! Vanity is at the root of ...

Then it began. Nobody knew what triggered it. There was no summons from Herbert Armstrong, none from me, or from any of the Church officials or ministers. Most of the latter were not even in Pasadena; they were attending an ecclesiastical conference in Tucson. It started with a trickle of Church mem ...

WE ARE NOW fast approaching a world crisis unparalleled in human history! Right now, as you read this, nations are busy applying science, technology and industry to produce newer, more frightening weapons. Each "improvement" IS intended to increase the ability to mete out the threat of dea ...

Top law enforcement officials around the globe predict an increase in terrorist bombings, hijackings and assassinations in the months and years ahead. What can be done to stem the epidemic of terrorism? Washington, D.C., was a city under siege. A small band of Hanafi Moslem terrorists, bent on reven ...

God looked down with sorrow on these human creatures He loved. It so displeased Him that they would not abide by His rules of happy living that he decided to do an awesome thing. He would blot them out of the world by a mighty flood! (Genesis 6:7.) He knew that if human beings were to go on and on i ...