THE TIME AND WHAT MUST BE DONE - Part 1
Now we are 2,000 years from Jesus, when we are at the “6,000th Year.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that the time of this world was up in the year1914—but an extension of time was given by God as a “Grace Period,” because during that time, God would come and raise up from among The Oppressed a Messenger from Himself; and He would give that Messenger Guidance and Wisdom, and The Warning for America. And He would give that Messenger The Knowledge of “The Time And What Must Be Done.”
Well, that has happened. The Son of Man has come, as it is written in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 24, verses 27-28: “As lightning shineth out of the East unto the West, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. For wheresoever the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together” — America is that place. And the Black people in America are the “sons of men” that have been killed, mentally, by 310 years of chattel slavery where our names, our language, our culture, our history, our religion, and our God was stripped from us.
Our original parents were killed so that they would never be able to teach us our names, our language, and give us our religion. Go and study what Alex Haley found out! When Alex Haley was writing for Reader’s Digest, he interviewed the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and he interviewed Malcolm X; and Malcolm told him that our original fathers were Muslims—they were not “swinging in trees” with “bones in their noses”—no! Those of us, both White and Black, know that we were some of the highest- learned people of the world at that time! When we were brought to America we were skilled in science; so: “Who built the mansions of the South for the slave master?” It was not you Whites! It was we. “Who cooked your food? Who sewed the garments for the mistress of the house?” It was we who did that … while we took burlap that you dressed our fathers in and made garments out of it for ourselves and our children.
This horrible mistreatment of Black people must be accounted for! You have destroyed an entire people! Yet, The God of Mercy has come and offered you and us a way to get out of the prophesied doom, or to get an extension of time. Unfortunately, the only people in the Bible that got an “extension of time” from the prophesied Destruction were The People of Nineveh, under The Call of Jonah. No wonder the Bible teaches in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 16: “This wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, but no sign be given except the sign of Jonah! As Jonah was in the belly of the whale, three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be…”
That Great One, Who was to come, did come! He came under many names; but after three years and four months being among us, from 1930 to 1934, He gave us His real name: “My name is W.F. Muhammad. I came to North America by Myself … ” It is written of Him in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 63 that He “looked around for someone to help Him,” but there was no one to help Him, so “His own right hand, it upheld Him”; and the Bible says of Him that His hand was not too short to save, nor His arm. He came to seek and to save, and to deliver that which was lost.
The Bible refers to the Black man and woman of America in the Western Hemisphere as “The Lost Sheep.”
When Alex Haley set out on a journey to discover himself after hearing that his original fathers were “Muslims,” he found himself in The Village of Jufre, in The Gambia, where he found that his original fathers, one of whom was named Kunta Kinte, were Muslims. So when our fathers used to sing that song, “Give me that old time religion”—the “religion” of Daniel, the “religion” of Abraham, the “religion” of Moses, the “religion” of Jesus: “Give me that old time religion. It was good enough for them and it’s good enough for you and me.” What was that “old-time” religion? Oh brothers and sisters, it is “Obedience to God.”
You may call it what you will, but Abraham, the father of Muslims, Christians and Jews, was chosen to be The Friend of God, because he obeyed God in all that The Almighty had asked him to do. Obedience to God is the true religion of God. So when you know The Knowledge of “Time” and “What Must Be Done,” then you will be required to make a decision: “Shall I obey man? Shall I follow the rebellious way that we have been taught?” Or, “Shall I follow The Guidance of a Divinely-Guided Messenger of God that He gave us for this time?”
