The PLAIN TRUTH
a magazine of understanding
Pasadena, California 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Pasadena
June 20, 1982
Dear PLAIN TRUTH Subscriber:
This is a personal letter to YOU and 2,730,000 other subscribers to The
PLAIN TRUTH. Almost one million of you will be receiving this semiannual letter
from me for the first time.
As founder and Editor-in-Chief of The PLAIN TRUTH, I try to write a
personal letter to our subscribers about twice a year.
Let me give you the world news BIG headlines of the moment, and tell you
WHAT THEY MEAN, as revealed in biblical prophecy:
THREAT OF IMMINENT NUCLEAR WORLD WAR!
WORLDWIDE VIOLENCE MOUNTS RAPIDLY!
HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION!
SUPERNATURAL INTERVENTION BY GOD ALMIGHTY WITH WORLD
PEACE ALSO IMMINENT!
Those are the headlines of the hour, in summation. Now the details and
REAL MEANING!
These things vitally CONCERN YOU and YOURS!--no matter who you are
or where.
News embodied in those first three headlines fill your newspapers and
newscasts. They are all BAD NEWS. The GOOD NEWS is in the fourth headline
above, reported in The PLAIN TRUTH!
The next issue of The PLAIN TRUTH will carry an eye-opening article on
the imminency of nuclear World War III. The very nearness of this frightful
UNTHINKABLE world holocaust only signals also the imminency of WORLD
PEACE AT LAST--a totally new and happy WORLD TOMORROW.
ONLY The PLAIN TRUTH keeps you informed on what it means, and what
is the absolutely SURE prophesied outcome.
Let me give you a brief preview of the world YOU live in today, and what
the next very few years are going to bring into YOUR life and mine.
For the first time in human existence the weapons of mass destruction are
developed and stockpiled that can ERASE every man, woman and child on earth.
This coming cover article in The PLAIN TRUTH will give you a description
of what just ONE hydrogen bomb would do to one great city. In a fraction of a