Herbert W Armstrong

The Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes contains a message vital to the Feast of Tabernacles and your salvation. Wealthy. Wise. Well thought of. These positive words describe ancient Israel's King Solomon. Yet Solomon wasn't satisfied with life; he was filled with depression and despair. Why? And ...

Solomon and the Temple ...

Now in chapter 4 it leaves the scene of the description of the royal palace and the guard and the beauty and stateliness of the mansion and comes back to the man speaking now; "Behold, your fair, my love; behold, your fair; you have doves' eyes within your locks: your hair as a flock of goats ...

Because David had gone against divine orders and had taken a census in Israel, God had caused seventy thousand sudden deaths in Israel. Israel's king had then heeded the advice of the prophet Gad, who had told him that the plague would be stopped if David would quickly build an altar. The site God ...

Here's how to think "BIG"! How to have real wisdom to make the right decisions. Read and USE these vital principles. ...

How to figure the tithe - especially for the farmer or business man. Here are God's PROMISES to prosper the tither, and concrete modern examples of how He has done it! Here's HELP for the man in debt or out of a job! WHY Did the Lord ordain tithing! Was it to place increased burden and taxation ...

THE MOST destructive and terrifying thought that can enter a Christian's mind is the thought that he has been completely cut off from God by having committed the unpardonable sin. Think of it for a moment! How would it feel, after having known the depths of God's wisdom, after having seen the gl ...

"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished" (Prov.27:12). Some people don't lead life: they follow it around. Take the case of John and Martha. Against the aggregate wisdom of everybody they knew, they got married. None of their friend ...

WHY DIFFICULTIES? The Bible is God's divine revelation of the most necessary, basic knowledge of all life. It is the very FOUNDATION which mankind could not otherwise discover. It is the revelation of God's mind, will and character. And God is far greater than man in knowledge, wisdom and spirit ...

If you're five years old, we have a lot of five year old children who sit in services every week who learn a tremendous amount. They go home and tell their parents what they've learned. I don't care if you're twenty, thirty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty plus whatever your age is, what shoul ...

HEZEKIAH'S messengers were sent throughout Israel and Judah to spread the news of the reopening of the temple at Jerusalem. But they were scoffed at and threatened by idol-worshippers, especially in the territories of Manasseh, Ephraim and Zebulun. (II Chronicles 30:1-10.) Greatest Passover Since ...

Many religious scholars do not really know what God's temples were like. They are divided in their conclusions. Each man has his own opinion. Even in major points they sometimes disagree completely. By comparing the usual drawings and models of Solomon's temple, it is immediately noted that n ...

Many seem to think that comfort, ease, pleasure, and relaxed repose are synonymous with patience - that pain, delay, anguish must be avoided at all costs. But is this true? Do we have REAL PATIENCE, or are we only fooling ourselves? A DENTIST helped me to learn the lesson of real patience when he de ...

We thought we had it all figured out. Everything fit together perfectly, even things like: In 637 A.D. a wooden building was set up by the Arabs over the location of Solomon's Temple later. 637 + 1290 = 1927 when Mr. Armstrong was converted. 657 + 1335 = 1972 when the Church would flee. Also Mr. A ...

REHOBOAM, Solomon's son, had come before a public gathering to be proclaimed king officially (I Kings 12:1; II Chronicles 10:1), although he had actually been Israel's new ruler from the time of his father's death. (I Kings 11:43.) Rehoboam's attitude was that of a young man accustomed to wh ...