Herbert W Armstrong

Jesus spoke at great length, in private, to His disciples about His encounter with Satan. The accounts of both Matthew and Luke, together with Mark's one paragraph establishing the chronological place of the event Gust before the beginning of His ministry and just after His baptism), prove that Ch ...

Jesus could only look forward to an early death. He would be beaten into an unrecognizable hulk, tortured, ridiculed, abandoned by friends, mocked by enemies and finally crucified. Before His 34th birthday, He would be hanging on a stake, naked and dead. All this He knew, and knew fully, throughout ...

A miracle is a miracle is a miracle. There is no such thing as "little miracles" or "big miracles." Jesus performed many miracles during the course of His ministry, and, may have performed, at least on rare occasions, private miracles for family members or perhaps a neighborhood friend. However, to ...

Shop around any bookstore and you can easily be convinced that the general public accepts the fact there is a devil, and demons too. Sometimes, it seems that whole sections of bookstores are given over to materials on witchcraft, demonism, satanism, demon possession, astrology, extraterrestrial phen ...

Jesus' sensitive awareness of the spiritual dimension was constant, continual, all pervasive and perennial. That the voices which Jesus and/or others heard on various occasions throughout His life and His ministry had to be the voices of heavenly messengers, or angels, was made very clear by Jesus ...

There is as much confusion surrounding the message Jesus brought as there is about the personality of the man Himself - which is to say that there is an enormous lack of true understanding. Even the word gospel is usually misinterpreted or misunderstood - connoting to most minds something smacking o ...

The Pharisees and Sadducees were rival religious organizations. Though normally deeply divided, they could find temporary alliance in their hatred of Jesus. His popularity with the common folk - made poignantly obvious by their own unpopularity - and the sensational size and growing scope of His min ...

It is almost universality assumed that Jesus was dedicated to the task of eradicating the harsh, brutal system of law which had been like a harsh taskmaster, a yoke of bondage, over the Israelitish people from the days of Moses. Christ is seen as abrogating the Old Testament, and ushering in the New ...

Satan was totally obsessed with the destruction of Jesus. First, he had influenced Herod in an attempt to kill Jesus shortly after His birth. Satan had no doubt also desperately tried to destroy Jesus on many other unrecorded occasions during His young babyhood, and growing years. Satan again tried ...

It was the month of Nisan in the land of Palestine, and a prettier spring one could hardly remember. This "beginning of months" in the Jewish calendar (corresponding roughly to the latter part of our March and the first of April) marked the end of three-and-one-half years of Jesus' ministry, and t ...

Jesus had died late on the afternoon of Wednesday. True to His predictions, and the divine will and purpose of God, the Father in Heaven began His masterclock countdown at the precise instant of Jesus' death, the precise instant of the slaying of the Paschal lamb by the high priest in the high cou ...

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 ...

The Pharisees were an exclusive religious sect that outdid even the Temple priests in their complex rituals and extensive ablutions. But their self-righteous spiritual orientation clashed head-on with the philosophy of the new teacher from Nazareth. The Pharisees and Sadducees were rival religious o ...

Today, Jesus sells almost as well as sex - so long as He's not the real Jesus. But the Madison Avenue Jesus - the Hollywood Jesus - the fictitious Jesus who has been created in the minds of millions through a combination of religious tradition, misinterpreted history, false assumptions, hazy notio ...

"Jesus was born sometime in the late summer or early autumn of 4 B.C." The first time I ever made this statement I was received with a combination of doubt, incredulity, hostility and outright pity. "How in the world could Jesus have been born before Christ?" I was asked. This ar ...