QUESTIONS and ANSWERS - Plain Truth Magazine

QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

Herbert W Armstrong

Church of God

Born: July 31, 1892
Died: January 16, 1986
Member Since: 1928
Ordained: 1931
Office: Apostle

Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon.

QUESTION: "Where did Cain get his wife?"
ANSWER: This old question seems to have worried so many folks. The answer is in Gen. 5:4. "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters." Cain married his sister.

QUESTION: Where does the Bible foretell of the automobile?
ANSWER: In Nahum 2:3, 4. "The chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation" (just before the Second Coming of Christ),... "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broadways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings."

QUESTION: How can we "lay up treasures in heaven? Mat. 6:20.
ANSWER: See I Tim. 6:17-19. See also Mat. 19:21: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and GIVE TO THE POOR, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." When we do good unto others, thus fulfilling the law of Christ, we lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven.