Herbert W Armstrong

Man is beset by an end-time explosion of knowledge. The Bible prophesied it. Yet the Bible also foretold that our people would suffer greatly for LACK of knowledge! What's the answer to this enigma? Read here how our knowledge - AND the lack of it - is destroying us! FACTS, Theories, Books, Librar ...

The land that lies between Katowice and Krakow is hardly the most beautiful in Europe. It is frozen and bleak in winter, a swamp in summer. It is now part of southern Poland, although it has changed hands several times in the ebb and flow of history. At the end of the last century it was known as Ga ...

It is Tuesday morning July l9th. We are in flight in our G II from Tokyo to Hong Kong. We have on board one of my "Japanese sons"—a high member of the Japanese Diet, with his very charming wife and two of their three sons. Last Sabbath we had a private dinner in the private dining room con ...

The Bible is composed of 66 inspired books. But some Bibles have 7 additional books, called "the Apocrypha." Did God inspire these added books? Are there so-called "lost books" of the Bible? JESUS GAVE a promise, recorded three times: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but M ...

Whether you think yourself "religious" or not, vast CHANGES are going to take place in YOUR LIFE. These will be either for good - or for eternal DEATH. YOU have a rendezvous with destiny! WE LIVE in an age of lying and deceit. An age of hypocrisy and ignorance in religion, in education, in politics. ...

Jonah ben Dov stifled a shudder that didn't come from the February freshet that drenched him with icy follow wetness. It was the early spring of 1960, and he was standing on a concrete pier on the north-east coast of the United States. What made Jonah shudder was the thought going through his mind ...

Ark Begun - Flood - Babel - Noah (950) - Shem (600) - Arphaxad (438) - Salah (433) - Eber (464) - Peleg (239) - Reu (237) - Serug (230) - Nahor (148) - Terah (205) Nahor - Haran - Abraham (175). Lifespans dropped off sharply after the flood: Noah died 2 years before Abraham was born.... ...

Perhaps the most enigmatic parts of Revelation are the book's last two chapters. These describe "the new heavens and new earth," "the new Jerusalem" and "the tree of life." When do the "new heavens and new earth" appear? In Revelation, they appear in time order after the Millennium and Great ...

The Israelites, at the time of the deportation, which took place in several stages, were successively taken into captivity, as in Assyria, or in other foreign nations, notably in the cities of the Medes. The deportation to foreign places was customary in Assyrian politics, because it permitted easie ...

A favorite song of recent years is titled "What the World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love" - but before the world can have love it must have hope! Every morning we wake up to a cacophony of fear and despair, chaos and cruelty, coups and corruption. In the newspaper, over the morning cup of c ...

The progression of prophetic events in Revelation is temporarily interrupted after the sixth angel blows his trumpet (the second "woe") (Rev. 9:13-21). Revelation now gives us two inset chapters. They bring the reader up to date on a very important happening during the last days. That landmark ...

The first six seals represented the calamitous events breaking out in the world at large. They showed humanity facing the consequences of its own sinful actions as well as the impending judgment of God. Chapter seven breaks away to a different scene. It picks up the story of God's people and ...

And I saw when the lamb had opened one of the seals, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, there went out another horse that was red. Power was given him that s ...

Nisan, 1446 B.C. - Spies sent to Jericho, make agreement with Rahab who hides them and helps them escape that night (Joshua 2:1-21). - Three days spies hiding (Joshua 2:16, 22). - Spies return to Joshua at Shittim (Joshua 2:23-24). - Israelites removed from Shittim and lodged before the Jordan (Josh ...

Most parents know what they want for their children. Parental advice and influence is tuned to direct the young toward what the parents honestly believe is best for them. But the "kids" don't always agree! Why are parental values sometimes rejected and spurned by the youth of our church ...