Reprinted from February 23, 1973 edition of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper
We say 'MODERN' when we refer to something RESEMBLING something of the past. This name 'Babylon' begins in Genesis 10:10 (Bible). In Gen. 10:10 it is spelled 'B-a-b-e-l'. But, the same name seems to have changed itself into the name Babylon as we come to the most late-day history of this name.
BABEL (Babylon) - According to the history of Babylon throughout the Bible. BABYLON is referred to as something prophesied as having a failure upon her progress and rise.
IN Psalms 137:18, David prophecies that Babylon was made to be destroyed. We know of nothing other than the devil and his works, that was actually made to be destroyed, spiritually.
THE devil was not made to exist forever. This is verified by both the Bible and the Holy Qur'an and by all writers and teachers of scripture. So, here, Babylon seems to refer not only to some town or city, but it also seems to refer to a race or a nation of people.
ANCIENT BABYLON, as is known by all us, was a city under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. The fall of Babylon was final. Babylon was never to be rebuilt, after her fall. And, Babylon was never rebuilt.
THIS POINTS to the same prophesy of the devil and his kingdom in the Revelation of John (Bible) -- that satan and his kingdom would be burnt up and it would never rise again.
IN the Epistles of Paul there is a prophecy of the devil and his kingdom 'that the devil was made for fuel for the fire.' The Holy Qur'an refers to this prophecy in these words, "Fuel of hell is men and stones."
SO, as the 'fuel of hell is men and stones' --we do not know why stones are put there with men, it could be referring to the hardness of the stone and to the hardness of the heart and the hardness of the wicked against Truth and Righteousness.
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION (Bible), it is prophesied here, that an angel heralded a warning to the people that Babylon is falling. He then tells why Babylon fell. Babylon fell because she..."is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird." The 'foul spirit' here is used to tell us that the people of Babylon were filthy.
THE TERM, 'a cage' -- this tells us that her cities and her country became a CAGE for people of filth. The Bible teaches us that the God Referred to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah as being people whose doing and work was such that it came up and stunk in His Nostrils. (But I think that if the God would Get a good smell of this modern wicked filth here, he would think the smell of Babylon in His Nostrils was like the smell of a flower compared to the wickedness of today.)
BABYLON is used as an example for some distant people or their history. According to the prophets, this name Babylon is something that begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation. It is found throughout the entire Bible therefore we must not look at it as one personal part, We must not look at it as spelling out to us the ancient, only.
IN JEREMIAH, (Bible) we see a 'Daughter of Ancient Babylon'. He calls the people the daughters of ancient Babylon. These people are not the old parents, but they are the daughters from those parents.
THE DAUGHTER of Ancient Babylon refers to a more late and modern civilization whose people give themselves over to the practice of the same evil that the people of Ancient Babylon practised. But, the modern people were more capable of improving of the practices of the people of Ancient Babylon. Therefore, he calls this modern people 'the daughters of Ancient Babylon.'
ISAIAH (Bible Is. 47:1) asks this people, the daughter of Babylon, "Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne...for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate."
THE daughters of Babylon seems to have been a very rich people and they had fallen from a state of great wealth. Isaiah used Babylon as a pretty girl, whose lovers used to be plentiful because of her wealth and attractiveness -- now she has become ill-looking and had no more attraction upon the people. So he said, 'sit down in the dust, you are no more respected and attractive to the people.'
THE PROPHET JEREMIAH warns Ancient Babylon that she had a daughter coming. This daughter meets the fate destined for Babylon; she was made to be taken.
Satan was made to be taken and destroyed. Why? Because she had become a place where evil was practiced. She was like a bird that goes out and associates with birds other than her own kind and then she becomes a hateful bird - she is hated by the other birds.
BABYLON fills herself up with people of that sort. The U.S.A. came into the Western Hemisphere and chasten and all but annihilated the Indians. But, America invited every one of the poor class, who wanted to come from Europe, to make themselves a home here in America, the Indian's country.
ALL of the poor and evil citizens of Europe, America welcomed them. She invited every race of the earth to come and join in with her in a free country where evil and filth are openly practiced without hindrance.
AMERICA has done just this. She has filled up her country with all evil people. America did not allow Islam nor a preacher of Islam, to come into her country, America did not want good religion taught. America made a religion that she could rule and control herself. She made it attractive to the eyes and ears of those who see and hear it, by teaching them basically that there was three Gods instead of teaching them the teachings of Moses and the prophets -- the Teaching of One God.
AMERICA makes is possible in her God-Head that if one of Them does not like you, you may plead to Another and if One does not Let you By, One of the Three Will. This is contrary to the very law of nature. It is contrary to America's own mathematical language. In mathematics it is not possible to put three (3) into one (1).
SO, America, having this religion, contrary to the truth, today the Author of Truth is Condemning her (America). America is nothing but a foul and evil place to live. She has no respect for her own self, nor anyone else. She will disrobe in the public and go Nudist. America even has nudist colonies wherein if you desire to go nude you can do so, if the public does not want you.
IN the Bible, Rev. 18:4,5 in the Revelation of John, a people are warned to flee out of her. Here, we get the name Babylon to become a modern day people. The voice of an angel warns the people of a certain class to fly out of Babylon. "...Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities" (as being an evil people). So the angel notifies us saying, "Babylon the great is fallen." Today, we see this same thing.
THERE is no people, to be warning, to come out of another people that answers the description of this warning, as the so-called Negro in America of Lost-Found People of our own Black Kind, does.
HERE, the so-called Negro is warned to fly out of her and not to be partakers of her Judgment - her torment. The angel says, 'so much evil has she done to thee' Rev. 18:6, "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double."
ALLAH, (God) In the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, To Whom Praises are due forever, Said to me, that there is nothing that you can do to her in the way of evil that could match the evil that she has already done to us.
THIS is why the Revelator calls the people of Moder Babylon 'beasts', for they live the kind of life of wild beasts. They have no mercy for themselves or for anyone else. They are made merciless although there are a few who will believe and escape the doom of her brothers. This is their reward just by faith.
BUT, the Black Man is Created Righteous by the Creator, and he was made blind, deaf and dumb by his kidnapping lord and master, the white slave-master. I do not think that you could overlook the most positive truth here, in this article, that we are now living in the CALL of that angel, to us, to come out of her. The 'her' here means the wicked world of the devil.
SINCE, we the Black People were kidnapped and forced into this world (of the white race) we must be forced out of this world. It is not that you my people will accept by just having the freedom to accept of your won choice. No. You will have to be punished, Divinely Beaten and Destroyed until you accept Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises are due forever, as your God and Saviour, as I and thousands of my followers are doing.
DO NOT think that the 144,000 prophesied of, are the only ones who will be saved. The 144,000 refers to the first converts --'the first ripe fruits of God and His Messenger; the first ripe fruits of God and the Lamb.'
ANOTHER prophecy warns us that 'Babylon is falling never to rise again.' In this warning it teaches you that the country and people of Modern Babylon will become like the people and city of Ancient Babylon that was destroyed and has not risen up a people or a city since its destruction.
I WARN you my Black Brother and Black Sister that unless you believe in Almighty God Allah, Master Fard Muhammad, as I do and receive the Name of the Holy and Perfect God you will never see the Here-After.
THE Bible warns you and me that on the final destruction of the wicked, Allah (God) Will Say to the angel that He Has to Usher in the Judgment to Bring His People to Him, everyone that is called by His Name. For He Gives His People His Name so that He May Save them. So that they may be the Servant of Allah (God) as they were the servant of the white slave-master.
AS LONG as you are in the name of the white slave-master you belong to the white slave-master And regardless to what you believe and regardless to how mighty you think that you are, you will not be accepted by the Black People and the God of Our Black People, if you have the name of white people and if you are in the religion of Christianity. Thank you for reading this article.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
MESSENGER OF ALLAH,
to you All
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