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The PLAIN TRUTH
a magazine of understanding
Pasadena, California 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
October 20, l982
Dear PLAIN TRUTH subscriber:
A warm welcome to thousands of new subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH
since my last personal letter to all subscribers.
The PLAIN TRUTH has now topped 5,000,000 copies per issue. It is now
the fastest growing magazine in the world, and one of the widest circulated
mass-circulation magazines on earth. Our circulation is now greater than Time or
Newsweek. New subscribers are coming in at the rate of around 40,000 per week.
As world news worsens, people by the MILLIONS are turning to The PLAIN
TRUTH to UNDERSTAND the MEANING behind these fast-moving events
bringing us swiftly to the END of this world and the dawn of a NEW world of
peace, happiness and abundance!
No other publication gives you the real MEANING of these mounting
world-shaking happenings. So very much has occurred in this troubled world
since my last semiannual letter. More and more, world disturbances are centering
on the Middle East--as they will from now until the fast-approaching
ARMAGEDDON.
Right now, in the United States, TV commentators, newspapers and
politicians are arguing back and forth, like children angrily shouting, "You
did--you didn't," as to which is worse, unemployment, or inflation and high
interest rates. But in this world, it's ALL bad news! And the leaders in the
world
do not know the CAUSE of the troubles that beset society. The PLAIN TRUTH
brings you the real causes of all the bad news.
But WHY do we know? And WHY do not the world's leaders know? Why
do not scientists, the most highly trained minds, know? Let me tell you.
All nations have their secret codes. If the U.S. government sends a very
confidential message to its ambassador in Moscow, it is sent in code. Soviet
officials will probably intercept and read the message--but they won't
UNDERSTAND it. But God has the one absolutely unbreakable secret code of all.
The Holy BIBLE is the world's best-seller. Yet the least read--and the LEAST
UNDERSTOOD. Do you know WHY?
Let me tell you WHY PLAIN TRUTH writers DO understand world
happenings and biblical prophecies, even though theologians, established
churches of traditional Christianity or electric evangelists CANNOT.
ONLY GOD knows what is going to happen. Only by UNDERSTANDING
Bible prophecies can you know what is now soon going to happen! Yet almost
NONE does understand. The Bible tells you WHY.
The Bible is the Word of God--it is GOD SPEAKING through his Word in