Herbert W Armstrong

How did Judas Iscariot, fervent disciple, turn into Judas Iscariot, ultimate traitor? God only knows his inner motivations, but here's how it might have happened. It is very likely that Judas was a pleasant enough personality. For slightly more than three and a half years, from the time of his fir ...

"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me" (John 13:18). The speaker? Jesus Christ. The subject? Judas Iscariot, Christ's betrayer, the classic example of a traitor, and yet ...

Question 1: What is the prophetic significance behind the Czechoslovakian reform? Question 2: Please explain the apparent contradiction between Mat. 27:5 and Acts 1:18. Did Judas Iscariot, after betraying Christ, hang himself, or just swell up and burst open? ...

Peter, walking last with Judas, asked him softly, "Which one of us would be an enemy?" Judas' hands toyed with ... a money bag at his waist. "That man delights In riddles. Too many riddles." The grassy plain that had been the scene of the feeding of the 5,000 bustled with activ ...

Well good evening; it is very good to be here and to see all of you this evening. We are here picking up the story of Christ's Ministry, during the last two days prior to His crucifixion. Jesus was in Jerusalem preaching on the Sunday before Passover, He returned to Bethany where that evening, the ...

War costs not only the lives and lands of loved ones, but also a steep economic price: a tenth of all world expenditure. We call this war tithe "blood money." The thirty pieces of silver which Judas received for betraying Jesus have been called "blood money." But the Bible speaks about another kind ...

Millions assume that Jesus Christ had no brothers or sisters in the flesh - that Mary, His mother, was a perpetual virgin. But is this idea true? WHEN Jesus came to His own hometown synagogue to preach, he astonished the people with His teachings. In their amazement, they asked, "Whence hath THIS ma ...

Jesus said, "Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her." The question is, Why? Just days before His crucifixion Jesus returned for the final time to Bethany, a village less than two miles fr ...

Millions assume that Jesus Christ had no brothers or sisters in the flesh - that Mary, His mother, was a perpetual virgin. But is this idea true? WHEN Jesus came to His own hometown synagogue to preach, he astonished the people with His teachings. In their amazement, they asked, "Whence hath th ...

What does the Bible say about suicide? The Bible gives no specific command regarding suicide, nor does the word itself appear in the Bible. There are, however, references to seven people who killed themselves: Samson (Judges 16); Abimelech (Judges 9); Saul (I Samuel 30; Saul's armorbearer ( ...

It is very good to see all of you here, back here at Bible Study once again. We are going into the book of Jeremiah chapters 16 through 34 this evening. Last Bible Study we of course went into the introduction to Jeremiah and the first 15 chapters and we're looking at an overview of the book, next ...

Millions assume that Jesus Christ had no brothers or sisters in the flesh - that Mary, His mother, was a perpetual virgin. But is this idea true? When Jesus came to His own hometown synagogue to preach, he astonished the people with His teachings. In their amazement, they asked. "Whence hath th ...

The 12 disciples might well have felt some apprehension, though they may not have said anything, when Jesus announced to them that He was going to visit His mother. It was in Nazareth, after all, that the leaders of the synagogue had wanted to kill Him. Jesus, however, seemed unworried about possibl ...

Chronological Table of the Principal Events of the Ecclesiastical History of the First Three Centuries. Jesus Christ born. Herod the Great died. Archelaus banished. Quirinius sent to levy the tax in Judaea. Insurrection of Judas of Galilee. Augustus died, August 10. Tiberius succeeded. Jews expelled ...

Question: "Why do people in the Bible never seem to have last names?" Answer: God gave the first man but one name - "Adam." He didn't need another. Yet today people have at least two names and many times three or more. And still there are individuals with exactly the same names ...