Herbert W Armstrong

ABRAHAM GIVES UP HIS SON, AFTER the destruction of the cities on the plain of Jordan, Abraham moved southward to a land called Gerar. Just as God promised, a son was born to Abraham and Sarah. An angel had already told them to name the baby Isaac. Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born. ...

OK, we're up to the 6th chapter of the book of Acts; "And in those days, when the number of the disciples" now the word disciple is the word that means "learning or discipline", you know the modern educator talk about different areas of education in college as being a certain d ...

The Halloween season will soon be upon us. Stores will sell orange and black greeting cards; costumes and masks. Children will dress up as witches, ghosts, and vampires. Parents will carve pumpkins into grotesque configurations. Teens will join in the holiday spirit by engaging in pranks ranging fro ...

To The Honorable Mayor of Your Beautiful City: A radio-controlled nuclear bomb has been carefully concealed near the heart of your metropolis. If you distribute 20 million dollars in small bills to the minority members of your community within the next three days, you will be notified of the bomb' ...

Here is more surprising news from the campus at Pasadena. THE SMALL group of young disciples gathered about Jesus Christ on a mount in Galilee - were suddenly sobered by the import of the words He spoke to them: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of ...

Almost nobody reads it and fewer yet understand it. There are some things in the Bible that are so hard to understand. Now most Bibles sold today are the old King James translation that was made back in the year 1611 in the time of King James of England; clear back in the seventeenth century — 1611. ...

GREETINGS! in Jesus' name: We have just returned to Eugene. After an absence of three months and two days, I am again back at my desk. And I find the situation such that the very first thing I must do is write a very special and URGENT emergency letter to all our Co-Workers. I find the work in a f ...

The answer could mean money in your pocket! What's seven times nine? Be honest now. Did you know the answer straight off? Or did you have to stop and try to figure it out? How about 32 times 11, or 6,354 times 81? If you wanted the answer to problems such as these, would your automatic reaction be ...

It was on the tenth day of the first month (Nisan in the spring - not January in the winter) that Israel crossed the Jordan river and made camp in Canaan at a spot called Gilgal. The west border of the camp wasn't much more than a mile from Jericho, a thick-walled city swarming with enemy soldiers ...

Smiling faces out there. What can make you unhappy? You know psychiatrists believe that many things can affect our mood, to be happy, to be unhappy, to be distressed or to be calm. Psychiatrists in Ohio State, a doctor there said, "Take a look outside", you may take a look out that window there, he ...

1956 - A momentous year! Several wide-coverage daily radio stations added. The WORLD TOMORROW booms around the world. Mrs. Armstrong's diary records our tour of Middle East. INSTALLMENT 67 (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first installment of the Autobiography since the June, 1964, number. In order t ...

"The Eternal gave, and the Eternal has taken away; blessed be the name of the Eternal!" WHY does God allow some things which seem utterly contrary to anything we can understand? "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Eternal." He often does no ...

The Mysterious "Breach". Where did Jeremiah go, with Baruch his secretary and one of more of the royal daughters of History stops short at this point. Enlightened students of Bible history have long known that the Ten Tribes - called by the name "House of ISRAEL" - have been lost, and exist today am ...

IT IS revealed that Jesus was "Emmanuel" - that is, "God with us" - GOD in human flesh. He was both God and man - divine as well as human. Can God die? Was Jesus really dead, or did only His body die? Was Jesus the divine One alive during the three days and three nights a body wa ...

Why have thousands of comfortable matrons recently turned into rabid "women's libbers"? What makes wives who seemingly have everything go on the warpath against male chauvinism? Should you take sides in the battle of the sexes - and if you're a wife, just how liberated should you be? ...