Herbert W Armstrong

The one most important attribute of a successful marriage has escaped millions. This story illustrates how that important facet can be in your marriage. Most of us are romantics at heart. We all enjoy a good love story. But have you ever stopped to ask what is the greatest love story of all time? Pe ...

Since the building of the city of Babel, not a single recorded dynasty originated in the city precincts of Babylon for over 1000 years. Not until the renowned First Dynasty of Babylon did it become the supreme seat of political power. Hammurabi — or rather each historian who has written about him — ...

You have the opportunity to help usher in a whole new age! The Feast of Tabernacles pictures the soon-coming 1,000 years of peaceful rule over this earth by Jesus Christ. It will be the time we often refer to as "the wonderful world tomorrow." Christ will return to take up His position as ...

There is no need to be in doubt. There is a way you can tell whether you are in the Philadelphian or Lodicean condition. Check yourself by the FRUITS! DID YOU realize that there are members of God's true Church, today, who are Philadelphia era Christians in name only? Ministers in the field report ...

"In the beginning... God said, Let us make man in our image... in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them ... heirs together of the grace of life... that as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." God never intended there to be any " ...

In the movie world, a preview is a high-spot, action summary of a coming feature film. It is but a brief look at some of its contents. It only gives you a slight foretaste - just enough footage to whet your appetite. The biblical feast days are no different. They are but a type of good things to com ...

Do you have doubts about holding your job? Do you worry over loss of money - or over the lack of money you need? Does the dread of illness or of a nervous breakdown or of insanity haunt you? Are broken friendships, repressed love affairs robbing you of health? THEN HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO! ...

In Abraham, God found a man after the Flood who would obey Him. He commanded him to leave his home country and told him He would make of him a great nation and give him and his offspring forever all the land he saw (Gen. 12:1-4; 13:14-15). Ultimately, Abraham's twelve grandsons found themselves in ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - No TWO people believe alike in all things. Nobody agrees with EVERYBODY else. The purpose of The Plain Truth is to inform, to challenge, to stimulate THINKING, checking and PROVING what you believe. We always say to new readers, do not believe what we say - or any ...

It is Sunday afternoon. The Feast of Firstfruits — Day of Pentecost — will arrive at sunset this evening. That is the annual Holy Day that pictures God's HOLY SPIRIT coming to DWELL within each of us — begetting us as the very CHILDREN OF GOD — making us the very FIRSTFRUITS of the Great Living FA ...

Charles Blondin, a Frenchman, made history in 1859 when he performed a marvelous, unusual and highly dangerous stunt, not just once but several times. The feat? He walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls! And very carefully, no doubt! Such was Blondin's worldwide fame that he repeated the deed, wi ...

Do you have doubts about holding your job? Do you worry over loss of money - or over the lack of money you need? Does the dread of illness or of a nervous breakdown or of insanity haunt you? Are broken friendships, repressed love affairs robbing you of health? THEN HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO! ...

Most mothers in the animal world are, as you would suspect, very solicitous of the future welfare of their offspring. However, it's not every day that you'll find one who will dangle her progeny in midair a few inches away from certain destruction. But that's exactly what the female potter was ...

The doomsday clock has now been moved up one more minute, from four minutes to midnight to now only three minutes to midnight. That came from a report from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The bulletin has come since the showing of the film that shocked all American, "The Day After" televised rece ...

The government requires you to pay taxes. But what about your obligation to God? Few subjects animate our conversation more than taxes. We've learned to live with them, but not without a great deal of grumbling, complaining and opinion about how high taxes are and how the government is spending th ...