Herbert W Armstrong

Almost 3,000 years ago Solomon, king of Israel, was inspired by God to record for all time vital keys for successful living he had learned. Those lessons were collected in the book of Proverbs, and Solomon addressed that book to you! I always thought the Bible was for adults. Until I became one. ...

We continue, with this issue, the startling, eye opening series explaining to you the long-sealed prophecies of the BOOK OF REVELATION, coupled with sensational pictures, masterfully sketched by nationally famous artist Basil Wolverton. Vividly pictured before your startled eyes are the actual catas ...

Did the Protestant reformers lead their followers back to the "faith once delivered"? Read the shocking RESULTS of their activities in this revealing series based on Mr. Meredith's forthcoming book. PART X. Startling though it seems, most of us have never really proved why we believe the thin ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - I AM writing a new book titled Mystery of the Ages. It will appear serially for the next several months in The Plain Truth. Why have I written this book? Why is it so important now? In this Personal I would like to explain. I have lived a long, active, interest-pa ...

What is going to happen next, in really tremendously world-shaking events? Now we're living in the pulsating very complicated and fast-moving twentieth century. Never have events in all of the history of mankind, never have they been as they are today. The events of every day now are so exciting t ...

The progression of prophetic events in Revelation is temporarily interrupted after the sixth angel blows his trumpet (the second "woe") (Rev. 9:13-21). Revelation now gives us two inset chapters. They bring the reader up to date on a very important happening during the last days. That landmark ...

The 20th chapter of Revelation sketches a brief outline of God's plan for human beings. It briefly answers the question people have asked through the centuries, "What happens to the dead who lived and died through the millennia?" Revelation 20 portrays "the souls of those who had been behead ...

Genesis - "Beginning", Beginning of the world, recreation, the flood, Israel as a family. EXODUS - "Going Out", Shows the bondage of Israel in Egypt, their coming out of Egypt and God making an agreement with them. The redeeming of Israel. LEVITICUS - "The Priesthood Tribe of Levi", Gives instructio ...

Greetings again from England! Mrs. Armstrong and I are scheduled to return, tomorrow, to America—provided the fog lifts. The notorious London fog has grounded planes at London Airport the past day or two. We plan to fly direct to Dallas on a London-Dallas flight, visiting the new Ambassador College ...

A motion picture we could title Future World now begins. We are in a darkened theater, waiting for the opening scenes. Suddenly four frightening cinematic images gallop across the screen. They are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Four Horsemen have a symbolic message. They represent fo ...

But even the greatest minds in the world, whether minds of science, minds of the greatest political leaders, the heads of nations, they seem unable to solve any of the problems or the troubles. And yet we have 20th-century progress, such amazing progress, awesome progress. And yet at the same time, ...

Revelation now carries us to the end of thousands of years of human history. God has allowed an unseen power, Satan the devil, to influence a world willing to be deceived (II Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2; Rev. 12:9). That epoch is almost over. God is about to completely shatter the tool of S ...

WHAT AND WHY THE CHURCH? How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness, a voice cries out in clarity and power, with the reassuring truth of the world's only and sure hope! Editor's note: We are printing here, serially, the new book by Herbert W. Armstrong with th ...

In the 17th chapter of Revelation, John records his vision of another hideous and distorted creature. "I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns" (Rev. 17:3). The woman has a name on her forehead: "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT ...

The first six seals represented the calamitous events breaking out in the world at large. They showed humanity facing the consequences of its own sinful actions as well as the impending judgment of God. Chapter seven breaks away to a different scene. It picks up the story of God's people and ...