Herbert W Armstrong

Personal From Herbert W Armstrong - How GRATEFUL we should be, that God has seen to it in all ages that HIS TRUTH could not be erased from human accessibility! Ever since the time of Christ there have been organized conspiracies to destroy the Bible. Jesus Christ started God's Church in 31 A. D. A ...

In the Church of Rome, the clothing and crowning of images form no insignificant part of the ceremonial. The sacred images are not represented, like ordinary statues, with the garments formed of the same material as themselves, but they have garments put on them from time to time, like ordinary mort ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - WHY ARE the different branches of "Christianity" talking about UNION? WHY is it possible for them to make overtures toward compromise? And anyway, is it not right that they should all GET TOGETHER? WHY should Christianity be divided? The Vatican Second E ...

Seven years ago we published and offered, free of charge to our subscribers, a 334-page book on sex and marriage. The book was seriously NEEDED. Never before had there been a book like it! The most important dimension in knowledge about sex and marriage had been MISSING — unpublished until this book ...

Heart transplants are forcing doubts about the definition of death. There is growing tendency to make abortions legal. Many are asking if medical science is going too far. A patient's heart stops beating. He stops breathing. The surgeons quickly spark the heart back to beating like once-dead batte ...

Just what do you mean by the word sin? Just what is sin? What is the Bible definition? You know, about 45 years ago up in the town of Springfield, Oregon, an evangelist from Los Angeles was holding a tent evangelistic campaign. He had brought along with him about four or five young men of college ag ...

In this age of the "Sputnik" and "Explorer" earth satellites - in this age of TREMENDOUS change in all life and thought, caused by the fantastic scientific inventions of man - where is the voice of God's PROPHET? What does Almighty GOD have to say about the awesome time in whic ...

Read here why some have never understood what Genesis 1:1 really means! Some believe the Bible says the heavens and the earth were created only about 6000 years ago. Even many scientists assume this is what the Bible reaches. And they scoff. But is this really what Genesis 1:1 teaches? The truth is ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - WHY any church?" I asked myself in the fall of 1926. "Is religion, after all, the opiate of the people? Is there any reason, any purpose for religion or for churches? If so, which is the one true church? Why so many religions on earth if there is only on ...

How OFTEN do we hear one say, "He is so SPIRITUAL"? Or, "Those people are not very spiritual"? What is true spirituality - do you know? We need, just now, to be warned against being deceived into a false standard of spirituality. We need to examine the true scriptural standard. Four things usually a ...

What has the world today got to do with the world tomorrow? What is your life now got to do with the future? Say 100 years from now when you die, what happens next? Theologians have all kinds of real interesting ideas. Some of them are so hilarious; they really are funny. Have you ever heard about g ...

THE LIGHT IN THE DARK AGES. FEW understand the prophecies relating to God's Church throughout history. Most churches and their commentaries IGNORE these prophecies, explain around them, or deny they have any prophetic meaning. But why? Could it be because PROPHECY EXPOSES THE FAKES? GOD'S Church ...

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. ...

GREETINGS in Jesus' name! Here we are, already well into the year 1962. Events will move faster this year than ever. The WORLD will plunge one year closer to its END—and the dawn of the happy WORLD TOMORROW! We who are the instruments Jesus Christ is using in GOD'S WORK must keep pace. One big l ...

The beginning of the Sanhedrin, the origin of the "traditions of the elders," the usurpation of authority by laymen - these are discussed in this installment. IN previous installments we followed the Egyptian rule of Palestine until 198 B.C. In that year the Syrian kingdom on the north invaded and c ...