Herbert W Armstrong

The original of that mother, so widely worshipped, there is reason to believe, was Semiramis, already referred to, who, it is well known, was worshipped by the Babylonians, and other eastern nations, and that under the name of Rhea, the great Goddess "Mother." Sir H. Rawlinson having found ...

My friends, what's wrong with the world today? I'll tell you what's really wrong. It's because our men, our leaders, our great men, the men at the head of government, the men at the head of great businesses, the men that really run the works, are too limited in their knowledge, in their wisd ...

You would be shocked to learn what is being done right now to destroy the family unit. Are you aware that the family is under deliberate assault by some of the highest and most influential elements of our society? Are you aware of the role of government in the steady, sustained attack on the family ...

We have seen that the name Cimmerian or Gimiri, as mentioned on the Behistun Rock Inscriptions, referred to the people of the House of Omri, Khumri, or Ghomri. But what is the origin of the word "Scythia," as mentioned in the Persian and Susian languages on the Behistun Rock Incriptions? I ...

Most churches and their leaders take for granted that good Christians should fight for their country during the time of war. Here is an example of this common and almost universal teaching today. A soldier may kill in time of war, but for him to kill in the spirit of hatred is not the proper Christi ...

THE WAY TO PEACE, ON MT. TABOR the Israelite soldiers were able to see the Canaanite forces gathering on a plain several miles away to the southwest. An excessive amount of dust, such as would be raised by horses and vehicles, proved to the Israelites that the enemy's dreaded chariots were being b ...

The Meeting January 1957, I saw Ambassador College for the driven out from Beverly Hills after receiving a telephone call from an advertising man whose business I had man — from the brink of bankruptcy. "There's someone in Pasadena with a big, big problem," he had said. "Runs a small college of s ...

Our German Plain Truth Correspondent toured northwest Turkey on the second day after the giant killer quake struck there. One week later the Dean of the Faculty of our Texas campus and Head of the Spanish Department toured the devastated region around Caracas, Venezuela. They bring you reports from ...

The Ambassador College campus in Pasadena, California has been the headquarters of the Worldwide Church of God for 32 years. During that time, it has grown from one building on a three-quarter acre lot into a complex that is universally regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses in the world. He ...

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918) completely altered the course of the world's political order. But few living then would have predicted the revolution in moral attitudes and social values. Six decades of social revolution have' not brought the freedom and happiness promised. Instead, we have a great mora ...

Antiquity refers to what is ancient or obsolete. When applied to physicians, it traditionally refers to those who practiced in a bygone, distant, ignorant age. However, the mere passage of time IS NOT sufficient reason to defame an age and its people as obsolete! It is a wrong assumption to dismiss ...

In connection with the prophecies concerning the removal of the crown of David from the head of Zedekiah to the head of a prince who belonged to the hitherto non-ruling branch of the royal family of Israel's race, the Lord said, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it shall be no more ...

How should you train your child? How does he learn? Here is the astounding truth about modern child psychology. Today there is a deep-seated underlying hostility and resentment toward authority! Why? In the last issue, we saw how a child learns, and when he should begin to be taught! It is now vital ...

Hitherto we have considered the history of the Two Babylons chiefly in detail. Now we are to view them as organised systems. The idolatrous system of the ancient Babylon assumed different phases in different periods of its history. In the prophetic description of the modern Babylon, there is evident ...

Not many thousands of years ago, a series of bizarre catastrophes turned our earth into an animal disaster area. It was a massacre of worldwide proportions. Today paleontologists stare at the fossil record. They ask themselves, "But why -and HOW?" The place: Alaska. The subject: A mysterious series ...