Herbert W Armstrong

WHY DID Jesus curse the fig tree for not having any figs when "the time of figs was not yet"? The account in Mark 11 has stumped many people. But it need not. Rightly understood, it makes very good sense - and carries a valuable lesson for us. "And on the morrow, when they were come from B ...

This is my first letter to you this year. I have been delayed ten days in writing it. NOW I AM COMPELLED TO DROP EVERY- THING AND RUSH OUT THIS LETTER — because the situation now has become desperate! WHY do so many Co-Workers let down, forget, or neglect unless they receive an urgent letter from me ...

Thousands of you have heard of the millennium. But do you know what it is, when it will occur, and where it will take place? MILLIONS today are under a curse because they are believing a counterfeit gospel. The apostle Paul pronounced a double curse on any man or angel who would preach any other gos ...

PASADENA, December 25, 1978: Just one week ago I was visiting with Arab friends in Bethlehem, Judea. Today, I read the headlines of my morning paper and they cry out: "Iranian Riots Extend Year of Holy War"; "Negotiations Shaky as Vance Returns Home"; "Christmas Eve Finds Ho ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - WHY SO MANY churches? Why any church at all? Are all really GOD'S churches? "There must be one TRUE Church," I said 55 years ago, "but where is it?" I had just been shocked, dumbfounded, disillusioned, to see with my own eyes in the Bible tha ...

Just what is leaven? Which foods are to be avoided during the Days of Unleavened Bread? Matthew 26:17 calls the Passover a day of unleavened bread. Please explain. Is there biblical proof that the word even in Exodus 12:18 refers to the end of the 14th day of the month and not to its beginning? I th ...

Where is the one and only true Church today-the Church founded by Jesus Christ in A.D. 31? Seven major eye-opening proofs identify it unmistakably. Proof Six: WHAT AND WHY THE CHURCH? When we come to the question, WHAT and WHY is the Church, it is indeed astonishing that the one original true Church ...

The minute Judy opened her eyes and reached for the alarm clock, she knew it was going to be one of those days. It wasn't that she had not studied for a test today (she had), or that she'd disappointed her team in the game last night (she hadn't). It was just that, for no good reason Judy coul ...

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A new and true calendar, combined with the Roman calendar so widely used by today's Christian-professing world. HERE IS the true calendar for all mankind. Its principles go back to the very first chapter of the Bible where the sun and the moon were appointed to be for signs, seasons, days and year ...

In these anxious days of stress, turmoil and strife; of revolution and economic collapse; of war and fear of war; of confusion before a bewildering onslaught of creeds, dogmas, fables and false teachings, the PLAIN TRUTH makes its humble and modest appearance. The PLAIN TRUTH comes with a definite m ...

Good afternoon Brethren, sincerely hope that this Feast of Tabernacles is truly your best ever, I think that, not only think, but I know my wife and I can say, that this Feast of Tabernacles so far, has been the very best we've ever enjoyed. I've noted that a couple of people have come to me in ...

The troubles in the world today are appalling, never has the world been in such trouble except just before the flood, "as it was in the days of Noah" it is once again now. Violence all over the world, immorality, everything going downhill, everything wrong, it's at the end of Satan's dominion. A ...

Zimri, an ambitious and murderous man, had tried to become king of the ten tribes of Israel by murdering king Elah. (I Kings 16:8-10.) Zimri had then hidden in the palace at Tirzah. When the army approached, he had set fire to it, knowing that he would be slain if he were found. Zimri madly shouted ...

Athens, Greece The death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, 75, had been long expected. He had suffered from a variety of illnesses for a long time. Nevertheless it still came as somewhat of a surprise. Only three days earlier on Sunday, November 14, Mr. Brezhnev had delivered a tough speech from the Kremlin de ...