A Staggering Turn in World Events by Herbert W Armstrong

Summary

Herbert W. Armstrong discusses prophecies regarding significant, transformative world events, emphasizing that these will directly affect the United States and other major powers soon. Despite the prevailing turbulence, Armstrong brings an optimistic view by suggesting that the current worldly troubles will lead to positive outcomes. He links the inability to address these troubles to a lack of spiritual understanding and urges his audience to grasp the spiritual dimensions of life. Armstrong also critiques the materialistic advancements of modern society, emphasizing the need for people to recognize a divine purpose propelling these events and to rethink their beliefs about sin and spiritual values.

Highlights

• Armstrong predicts a significant change in global events that will impact nations including the US and UK 🌏.
• He criticizes modern society's focus on material progress while ignoring spiritual lessons 🌿.
• Armstrong argues that humanity's troubles stem from a lack of understanding of spiritual matters 🤔.
• He emphasizes the need for divine intervention to avert global catastrophe ✨.
• Armstrong stresses the importance of recognizing a purpose behind world events 📖.

Key Takeaways

• A major shift in global events is prophesied to happen soon 🤯.
• Current troubles are tied to a lack of spiritual awareness 🌌.
• Progress in material realm contrasts with spiritual ignorance 🧠.
• The true resolution of upcoming conflicts requires divine intervention 🌟.
• Understanding biblical prophecy is key to preparing for the future 🔮.

Overview

Herbert W. Armstrong delves into the foreboding prophecies concerning the world's near future, particularly focusing on the dramatic shifts expected in regions like the US, UK, and others. He asserts that these events are imminent and will bring about significant transformations that are rooted in spiritual ignorance. His message exudes a mix of forewarning and optimism, hinting at the good news that will ultimately emerge from today's troubles.

Armstrong reflects on society’s technological and material advancements, contrasting them with the lack of spiritual growth. He nostalgically recalls historical figures who would be amazed at modern progress, yet he warns that humanity has overlooked the spiritual insights necessary for true peace and understanding. This dichotomy between material and spiritual understanding forms the crux of his discussion.

In a compelling conclusion, Armstrong urges his audience to realize the divine purpose that steers the current global turbulence. He points out the dangers of ignoring spiritual dimensions, which he believes will lead to catastrophic outcomes if unaddressed. By unpacking biblical prophecies, he invites listeners to reassess their beliefs and expectations about the world’s fate, bringing an essential spiritual perspective to secular understanding.

A Staggering Turn in World Events by Herbert W Armstrong Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 the world tomorrow Herbert W Armstrong brings you the plain truth about today's world views and the prophecies of the world tomorrow ladies and gentlemen greetings if you knew what is prophesied to happen to the United States and that means to you and to yours within the very next few years you would be very vitally concerned a
• 00:30 - 01:00 staggering turn in world events is prophesied to happen in the very next few years if it doesn't happen in this decade it's almost certain to happen in the following decade it's going to happen in your lifetime and very very soon it will violently involve the United States Britain Europe the Middle East and to a lesser extent the entire world is going to be erupted in violence
• 01:00 - 01:30 and in a staggering trouble that is going to come on the whole world we're heading into it right now already is rather late for the free world to come awake to the meaning behind today's world news you get it in the news all over all you get in the news today is bad news but I have good news for you because out of this bad news is going to come really good news but I have to tell
• 01:30 - 02:00 you the bad news because that is in the imminent immediate future why are the best minds unseen to this thing that is coming on the world actually the news events that you get in television news every day you reading your newspapers every day it's a forerunner it portends it and if you could put it together rightly you should understand that is leading
• 02:00 - 02:30 somewhere and something is really going to happen the world and its leaders are the product of modern education and an education has Laureles to sleep in a way the most dimension of knowledge has been omitted from education it is not being taught it is not generally known you know in this world the things that we are able to do are almost awesome if an Abraham Lincoln
• 02:30 - 03:00 or if an Amerson or if a Vanderbilt to mention a great politician a great government man a great president and a great writer and also a great fancier if they were to come back to life today they all died in the 19th century and if they were to come back to life today they would be awestruck by the marvelous advances that have been made in the
• 03:00 - 03:30 world we think we're progressing we have done such wonderful things now I've been mentioning such things as sending men to the moon and back sending unmanned spacecraft to send back photographs right on the very surface of Mars to go fairly close as astronomers consider it to Jupiter and Saturn and to send back photographs that the astronomers say are absolutely mind-boggling because it is
• 03:30 - 04:00 opened up an entire new understanding to astronomers into scientists but you know here I am speaking to you in my own studio and I happen to be speaking to you from Tucson Arizona but you're not hearing it in Tucson except well perhaps some of you are because we're on a station here in Tucson but nevertheless it's going from the station from what you were hearing it over-the-air you'll
• 04:00 - 04:30 hear my voice just as if I were there in your living room and wherever you are watching at this time just take television it's a marvelous thing I was just thinking the other day back the time when in the movies we had the first talkie as we called it the first talking picture with Al Jolson but why that just excited the whole United States I guess the whole world I
• 04:30 - 05:00 wasn't in other parts of the world at that time but it was a marvelous thing yes we've done marvelous things since then we've added color and now the movies have gone into something greater and the things they do and the marvelous things they give you and your television screen on television are just almost beyond understanding and yet my friends astronauts who go part of the moon and
• 05:00 - 05:30 back come back and can't get along with their own family and pretty soon their family's broken up by divorce the children don't have a father and a mother with them any longer what tragedy but that's only one out of millions of cases that are happening all over yes the family structure is breaking down crime is increasing we have troubles all over the world nation is fighting against nation husband against wife children against parents and parents
• 05:30 - 06:00 against children black against white capital against labor and so it goes everybody's against everybody else it seems we're in that kind of a world we're in a world of trouble and we don't understand it and yet we're in a world of magnificent progress there has never been such progress in any time as in this 20th century I've lived through most of it I've lived longer than most of you because I've lived when we had
• 06:00 - 06:30 kerosene lamps instead of electric lights I remember the first telephones that we had in Hoover on a wall and there was a little crank that you had to turn you know if you wanted to ring central and of course that rang everybody on your line it was a party line and everybody would come to listen and hear and if you wanted to call someone everybody on your line is going to listen in on your conversation and everything that you had to say well that was the way people entertain themselves in those days my how much the telephone
• 06:30 - 07:00 even has increased and improved since then I'm in Paris I just take up the telephone make a few dials and I get whoever I want in this country without going through any operators or anybody just get them almost immediately I can get anything that I want from almost anywhere in my automobile driving on the highway I can call almost anybody from my airplane when I'm flying in air over the middle of the Pacific or someplace
• 07:00 - 07:30 you know some of these things we can do today are awesome and yet we can't solve our problems and our troubles what's wrong well I've been saying there has to be a cause for every effect there has to be a reason and the one reason back of all of our troubles is that our problems are spiritual in nature and the things are we're achieving and accomplishing are all physical and material in nature
• 07:30 - 08:00 now in the physical in the material realm we're doing wonderfully and we're getting along as I say if those people some of the great men of the world who died in the 19th century were to come awake and come alive today and look on this world they would be absolutely dumbfounded and yet before our troubles mankind is absolutely helpless our troubles as I say are spiritual in
• 08:00 - 08:30 nature and we don't understand spiritual problems to us there's something we don't see you don't see spirit and you don't see spiritual equations spiritual problems and you can't understand them with a normal natural mind and that's where our trouble is our knowledge is nearly all in the material in the physical realm and yet there is a missing dimension and the missing dimension is primarily in the spiritual
• 08:30 - 09:00 realm and most people just simply don't realize it now leaders do not what man is they don't know why we're here on the earth where we put here did we just happen then they mostly think we just happen that's what they've been taught in school in college and the University you know Winston Churchill said before the United States Congress I've mentioned this so many many times because it's so very important he said
• 09:00 - 09:30 there is a purpose being worked out here below when he said read below he implied a higher power above working it out but how many people know there is a purpose that is going on and that we're working at cross-purposes to that purpose and we're in trouble humanity is living in conflict with the way that would bring us happiness and
• 09:30 - 10:00 peace so we don't have happiness and peace we just have material gadgets we just have tremendous material things the world is giving acceptance to the very ways of life that are producing all of our troubles and yet the world is giving absolute acceptance to it now there's another thing we think to think and even so many religionists will tell you that long or sins they call it in religion they say is you're doing whatever you
• 10:00 - 10:30 think is wrong whatever man thinks is wrong and man decides for himself what he thinks is right and what he thinks is wrong in other words this sin question I was brought up in a very highly regarded Christian denomination and I know that the church I didn't know very much about what the church believed that's true but I didn't know a few things I know it is wrong to go to a motion-picture at any time well we didn't have really
• 10:30 - 11:00 motion-picture as much at that time when I was a little boy I remember when the nickel domes came and that was all just black and white and you could go in for five cents it didn't last long though but there was Theater and even going to a theater was long a pair of dice were the same just a pair of dice well no matter whether you used it or not if you had a pair in your house it was the sin and as I say going to the theater was a sin well you know we boys we remain little rascals and we
• 11:00 - 11:30 would slip away on our parents that know it on a Sunday afternoon going that made of the theater we're living in a world where you despise the authority you try to get away from Authority children try to get away from the authority their parents and parents don't want the authority of God over them at all above everything they don't want any Authority they want to decide for themselves what they want to do they want to do what they want to do well now world events are approaching toward a final grand
• 11:30 - 12:00 smash explosion in this world it's an explosion that can and if there isn't that great unseen strong hand from someplace who will intervene and prevent it's an explosion that will erase all human life from this earth for the first time I've said it before I say it again and again and again where's Franklin Roosevelt used to say when he was
• 12:00 - 12:30 president again and again and again I say that for the first time in all history of mankind the weapons exist now and science and technology and industry have produced the weapons that can blast all human life from off the face of this planet Earth and yet we seem to think that it's so awesome it's so terrible with no one will dare do it and we're trusting not only trusting the
• 12:30 - 13:00 leaders of the Kremlin and the leaders at the White House in Washington and we feel that we can trust them don't we but do you realize that there are many smaller nations today that have atomic weapons and one of them a madman and one of them could to war that would expand into the world war that would erase all mankind from
• 13:00 - 13:30 the face of this earth now I told you good news from while ago that isn't going to happen but it isn't because man is going to prevent it man will not prevent it it will have to be done to us and for us because we won't be able to solve our own problems ourselves that explosion is coming and some things are going to come that are going to concern the United States now I said in the
• 13:30 - 14:00 beginning if you knew what is prophesied for the United States I mean the United States and what is going to happen here to this nation mentioned in the Bible you would really pay attention or else you would just say well we rub your shoulder and say well I'm not going paying attention to it or don't believe it because very few believed God anyway Adam and Eve didn't very few believed Jesus when he was on earth you know most people don't believe God they don't
• 14:00 - 14:30 believe what he says now I say that about 90% of prophecy is on our time now and prophecy tells what is going to happen to the United States of America specifically and in the very near future now perhaps you're not a bit concerned you don't care what's going to happen to you your children your family all your loved ones well I do care I care for one
• 14:30 - 15:00 I really do why have not our leaders understood what is prophesied why are they not known what God says is going to come on this nation I mean this nation the nation's haven't understood the leaders of nations and the leaders of churches have not understood why well there are two reasons why they don't understand one is they do not have the key that will
• 15:00 - 15:30 unlock prophecies to understanding secondly they have not believed God and if they knew they wouldn't believe because they don't believe God now the first humans did not believe God Adam and Eve didn't believe God people don't believe God today did the leaders of nations believe God some of them believe in God but do they believe God that is do they believe what he says go back to our very first parents Adam and Eve and
• 15:30 - 16:00 you find here that the woman did believe Satan but she did not believe God but I want to show you what God said himself the eternal God inspired a man to the name of Isaiah to quote him and to say this this is what he said who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand he means the waters in the ocean who has taken the waters of the whole ocean and measured them in his hand and
• 16:00 - 16:30 kneaded on heaven with a span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains and scales and the hills and the balance what man has been able to do that I just told you a little while with all the marbles things that man has been doing but man can't do that no no he can't do that that is what God himself has done continue and I'm reading this in the fortieth chapter of Isaiah and I began
• 16:30 - 17:00 with verse 12 verse 12 in the fortieth chapter Isaiah 40 continuing now who has directed the spirit of the eternal or being his counselor has on him man thinks he is so wise he is so confident and he's so perfect in his own estimation I guess man thinks he could teach God a lot of things that God doesn't know now God is challenging him and he says who could teach God you
• 17:00 - 17:30 better think this one over verse 14 when whom to key God with whom took God Council and who instructed him and taught him the path of judgement and taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding God knows the way of understanding but human beings don't if we did and if we would walk the way of understanding wouldn't have our troubles because I say that way of understanding is the spiritual way we don't seem to
• 17:30 - 18:00 know anything about it the world only knows the physical and the material ways verse fifteen behold the nations are a drop of a bucket that is in the sight of God and compared to God God is so great so important his power is so great he created all of the planets of the whole vast universe so what is even a single nation behold the nations are as a drop of the bucket and are counted as the
• 18:00 - 18:30 small dust of the balance behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing he might be referring there to the British Isles Mighty's referring to the Japanese islands maybe the Philippine Islands oh yes even the islands still compared to Almighty God they're a very little thing and yet people don't have time in their mind in their busy life of entertaining and amusing themselves to even give God any forth they want to put
• 18:30 - 19:00 God out of mind alright let's continue all nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity whom then will you like in God or what likeness will you compare unto him now God himself has inspired people to say that I tell you people don't realize the greatness of the creator himself and yet he is a living thinking personage with a master
• 19:00 - 19:30 mind a mind great enough to have designed everything you see all living creatures all living things to design an oak leaf and a maple leaf coming on out of a tree and to cause it to grow out of the ground no man could do that it is he that setteth among the circle of the earth people say the Bible doesn't even say that the earth is round well it does right there the circle of
• 19:30 - 20:00 around Earth in other words and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretches out the heavens as a curtain compared to God we're just like so many little grasshoppers and the earth is like vanity and nothing but a lot of vanity verse 25 to whom then will you liken me God says or shall I be equal says the Holy One to whom are you going to like lift up your eyes on high and behold who
• 20:00 - 20:30 have created these things but people don't like to do that and they don't realize now it is God who tells us the end from the beginning I'm coming to that but I want to read to you from the Moffatt translation now in the 33rd Psalm and beginning with verse 10 the eternal wrecks the purposes of pagans you know nations have many plans they have many ideas and some of them are planning things that are not very good
• 20:30 - 21:00 against other nations but the eternal wrecks the purposes of pagans and pagan nations he brings to nothing what the nations plan things are not going to work out like the nations think they will but the Eternals purpose stands forever as I quoted a while ago as Winston Churchill said there is a purpose being worked out here below it is the purpose of God and God's purpose
• 21:00 - 21:30 will last from age to age happy is the nation whose God is the eternal the people that he has chosen for himself the eternal looks down from heaven from where he sits he scans all who inhabit the world God looks down from heaven he scans everything everybody he is able to do that very few humans would be able to do that he alone made their minds he notes all they
• 21:30 - 22:00 do you know I used to think I had to prove whether or not God exists to myself and I got to thinking my mind is greater than anything that I myself can think out plan and bring to pass and bring about or anything that I can make I cannot make anything as great as my own mind well then my mind couldn't have made anything greater than itself it took a greater mind to produce my mind
• 22:00 - 22:30 and to produce your mind and it's about time we began realized that armies do not bring victory to a king the warrior is not rescued by sheer strength in a world war two didn't end the way men wanted to end that God determined how it was going to end and I could take time to go back i was broadcasting on radio during World War two giving the news from day to day and week to week and many of the things that happened at the
• 22:30 - 23:00 end that determined the outcome of the war were things completely out of the hands of man it was determined by the eternal God he wrecks the purposes of pagan nations he determines what is going to happen cavalry are in vain for victory there's no winning for the strength of that know the Eternals I rest on his worshipers who rest their hopes upon his kindness that he may rescue them from this and during famine
• 23:00 - 23:30 days keep them alive it is God and the nations need to turn to God because we are not able to solve our own problems we just simply are not able at all now I would like to turn to the 46th chapter of Isaiah the ninth and the tenth verses Isaiah 46 God says I am God and there is
• 23:30 - 24:00 none else I am God and there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand I will do all my pleasure God determines what is going to happen in Nations now God has foretold what is going to happen telling the end from the beginning what does he say is going to happen to the United States would you believe it if you heard it and
• 24:00 - 24:30 if you read it is your mind open or your eye is open to read it what is prophesied to happen to these United States to you and me and ours very few seem to know that but I can tell you this people simply don't understand Bible prophecy because the key that unlocks the door of prophecy well they have lost it in perhaps it's
• 24:30 - 25:00 always been lost from most minds but it has been discovered and I happen to know that key that will unlock prophecy approximately one third of the Bible is prophecy telling what God says is going to happen in the future now what does God say is going to happen to the United States of America it was started about - a little over 200 years ago by thirteen original colonies and has grown to this
• 25:00 - 25:30 great United States of fifty nations what is going to happen I have a booklet that I would like to have you read it it's not a booklet really it's a full book the United States and Britain in prophecy the United States is definitely pompous light little nations like Ethiopian Libya and other little nations are mentioned in the Bible even Russia is mentioned and those who know the key understand that Gog and Magog and Ezekiel 38 and 39 is referring to Russia
• 25:30 - 26:00 but where is the United States mentioned in the Bible prophecies as I say about one third of the whole Bible is prophecies and about ninety percent if not 95% of that zeros on us today and the very time in which you and I are living now right down into this very day this booklet will show you the missing key there is a missing dimension in
• 26:00 - 26:30 knowledge that missing dimension is the Word of God and you can't understand that unless you understand where the United States is mentioned in prophecy this is a book of open your eyes to many many many different things now I think that's perhaps most of you won't read that in one sitting some of you would but it's quite a little book to just give to you and I'll send it to you gratis no charge no follow-up a request for money nobody
• 26:30 - 27:00 is offering anything like that I'll tell you this this is something nobody else believes but if you're willing to look with your own eyes and believe what you see plainly in the Word of God as I say Adam and Eve didn't believe God's Word he talked to him in person they didn't believe him Jesus came in preached to thousands and only 120 honorable many many multiple multiple thousands believe what he said wish I had time and I'd
• 27:00 - 27:30 show you that they just didn't believe him but I would like to send you that book that's the most important book I believe in one sense that we have ever sent out we sent out some very very important books but that is a key book very very important now I'll send you a copy or you can get the larger copy and a little bit larger type a little bit better paper a nicer binding of course that you can buy in the bookstores if you want or I'll send this to you without any cost or any charge or any
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