Herbert W Armstrong

This letter is being written high in the air, with mingled emotions of thanksgiving and gratitude, hope and JOY! My most fervent heart-rending and prevailing prayers of the last ten months, combined with yours have been answered! Messrs. Portune, Antion and Dart — all Vice Presidents, Mr. Stanley Ra ...

About 1140 B.C., when God still ruled Israel through judges, there was a Levite named Elkanah who had two wives. One, Hannah, was favored of her husband, but had no children. The other was Peninnah. Each year the family journeyed to Shiloh to worship the Eternal. This is where Joshua, about 300 year ...

Ambassador Colleges ARE recapturing the TRUE values! And it's FUN! It's EXCITING! But it's also challenging, and deeply rewarding. Read, in this article, about student life at the happiest places on earth! I've just returned from Ambassador College, St. Albans, England. My wife and I were th ...

Here we are at the SHORTEST month of the year. That makes it financially difficult, for we have a FULL MONTH'S bills to meet, but fewer days for receiving tithes and offerings — though we DO get one extra DAY this February, since it is another leap year. Giant doors are opening before us now, it s ...

God's Word shows us many spiritual lessons we can learn from the Olympic Games. Excitement is now rapidly mounting worldwide as hundreds of millions of people look forward to viewing, either in person or on television, one of the world's greatest sporting events, the Summer Olympic Games. The Ga ...

Was Jesus three days and three nights in the grave, as He said in Matthew 12:40? Can you figure this between sunset "Good Friday" and sunrise Easter Sunday? Here is an astonishing Bible TRUTH! It is commonly supposed, today, Jesus was crucified on FRIDAY, and that the resurrection occurred ...

Was Jesus three days and three nights in the grave, as He said in Matthew 12:40? Can you figure this between sunset "Good Friday" and sunrise Easter Sunday? Here is an astonishing Bible TRUTH! IT is commonly supposed, today, Jesus was crucified on FRIDAY, and that the resurrection occurred ...

THE 1970 Feast of Tabernacles is shaping up to be the greatest Feast ever observed by the Philadelphia era of God's Church. Multiple thousands of man-hours have gone into the planning and administration of 18 Feast sites around the world! This year's Feast portends a number of exciting changes w ...

During the 14th century a deadly disease swept across Europe, destroying more than one third of the population. This killer plague, known as the black death because of the black patches on the skin of its victims, struck rich and poor, high and low. The bubonic plague was all the more frightening be ...

"Son, could you lend me 50 bucks?" This may not be an unusual request in these days of high inflation. After all, many teenagers are "in the money." It's comparatively new, this teenage affluence. My wife and I can remember the day when most young people had little money of the ...

I want to announce NEW and ENLARGED ACTIVITIES in this Great Work. It is the Work of the living God — and it is going forward in greater power now than ever before. We have been given the GREATEST COMMISSION ever delegated to human beings on this earth. I think we tend to lose sight of that fact — o ...

When and how did the English first become interested in North America? Only five years after Columbus had discovered America, John Cabot — a Genoese navigator sailing in the name of Henry VIII of England — came to North America. He was, in fact, the first European to set foot upon the North American ...

QUESTION: "I would like the following question answered in your Q & A section as it has bothered me for quite some time. It concerns Galatians 6:6: 'Let him who receives instruction in the word of God share all good things with his teacher - contributing to his support.' Does this r ...

The beginning of the Sanhedrin, the origin of the "traditions of the elders," the usurpation of authority by laymen - these are discussed in this installment. IN previous installments we followed the Egyptian rule of Palestine until 198 B.C. In that year the Syrian kingdom on the north invaded and c ...

When Waldenses Began: From the New International Encyclopedia, article Waldenses: The name given to the followers of Peter Waldo and his successors in modern times. In modern times, there are two things you need to discern especially about the Waldenses. First, how old are they? Do they go all the w ...