Herbert W Armstrong

The Fantastic Paradox: Human discontent, troubles, evils, are increasing in direct ratio with the increase of KNOWLEDGE! WHY? Here is the surprising, incredible ANSWER! "GIVE us SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE," cry the experts, "and we will solve all of humanity's problems." In the ten years, 1960-1970, hum ...

By what authority do historians give GREECE credit for the origin of modern medical practice? This question may come as a surprise. Most early men of learning taught that ALL civilization began with a single people: the ancient Greeks. Until the Twentieth Century, few students of medical origins hav ...

THE BEGINNING AND growth of the Worldwide CHURCH OF GOD is an exciting story of faith under hardship, opposition, persecution. It IS a history bringing Jesus' parable of the mustard seed into real life in the turbulent 20th century. This mustard seed was born in the midst of the Great De ...

The Fantastic Paradox: Human discontent, troubles, evils, are increasing in direct ratio with the increase of KNOWLEDGE! WHY? Here is the surprising, incredible ANSWER! "GIVE US SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE," cry the experts, "and we will solve all of humanity's problems." ...

And what was it, and how organized, In 1933, and from A.D. 31-70? The Work of God, and the organization and government of the Church of God, underwent radical changes from A.D. 31-70 to 1933, and also from 1933 to the present. We need now to stop and get our perspective. Was it as it should have bee ...

Your child is ready for school. But are you? How well have you prepared your youngster? An enormous challenge faces you and your child as school begins! Many parents are not prepared. You should be. Up until this time, while your child has been at home with you, "training him or her up" in ...

Very shortly after my original marriage in 1917, an angel appeared to my wife in a dream. He descended from the sky, put his arms about both of us, said God was calling me soon to a most important commission. At the time I was embarrassed, suggested she tell it to the preacher at the church on the c ...

Do we really understand why we keep them? And do we understand this particular festival of the Feast of Unleavened Bread thoroughly? You know, we have an entirely different situation today than they did in the days of Jesus and the first original, first century, apostles. I think that we have heard ...

Is the Flood merely a Hebrew myth? Does the biblical record of the Noachian Deluge and the Ark make sense in the light of modern, scientific findings? DURING the past few hundred years, the credibility of the Bible has come under serious question. Many have found it difficult to believe ...

Before we can trace the people of Israel from the land of their captivity to their present-day homelands, we need to answer this question — "Just what were the ancient Palestinian Israelites like?" Were they Nordics? Did they look like the "typical Jew" of today? In particular, we are concerned with ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - No TWO people believe alike in all things. Nobody agrees with EVERYBODY else. The purpose of The Plain Truth is to inform, to challenge, to stimulate THINKING, checking and PROVING what you believe. We always say to new readers, do not believe what we say - or any ...

How does God view those who come into political power in this world? God does not look at all human leaders the same. What the heads of the governments of this world do makes a difference in the eyes of God because every leader holds power only by God's EXPRESS PERMISSION: "The most High rule ...

We need to be thinking about the things of God and the things of the Kingdom of God, and devoting our lives to that - instead of just being interested in the world, and just taking time to come to a Bible Study Friday night and a Church service on the Sabbath, then the rest of the time living in the ...

I have been observing these festivals now for 58 years, longer than any of you. And so I look on you as my children; and I am going to talk to you tonight as a father. Now I have a Bible in front of me. But, you know, I can't read a word of it. Last year, when I talked to you on this program the n ...

Here's an article written by Herbert W. Armstrong for the first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH, seven years BEFORE the magazine existed. It was never published. It appears now, 38 years later, for the first time. Recently, among old files, Mrs. Armstrong ran across the manuscript of an article written f ...