By Messenger Elijah Muhammad
Reprinted from the August 3, 1973
What can we expect at the end of the War...paradise or hell? See Bible, Dan. 9:26, 27. "...and at the end of the war desolations are determined...and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." This is like saying do not expect healing ointment to be poured on the sore that has been made. You will not get healing ointment. Instead, you will get a worse sore. With trying to find a job for the unemployed soldiers who are returning from the war zone (if they have a chance to return) this will be one of the worst headaches for the government, that she has ever received.
With unemployment mounting so fast, it will create revolution. And everybody will want to divide the government up into pieces and every leader will want to grab a piece, for his part, to try to muster some kind of government, patterned after his own way of thinking.
Desolation...if we are going to suffer deprivation in a country that has been the pride of the nations, this will make it altogether worse, for everybody will be thinking about the way that they used to live, and the freedom and the privileges that they used to have. And this will make anger rise up in the midst.
What I am trying to show you is that the Prophet Daniel cannot be wrong,
because this 'desolation that is determined to be poured on the most desolate,'
is aimed at the place in which we now live. And just remember, that you cannot
expect paradise, here when such condition of desolation is headed toward
America. And since we cannot make Prophets' words, other than the truth,
we expect this desolation, and we are receiving this desolation, now.
And the way to hasten such desolation is to confuse the heads of government. And if we see this confusion of the heads of government, as plain as the five (5) fingers on our hand-and if we have only on (1) finger on our hand, we can see that the government is confused and cannot find a way out, in peace with itself-daily and nightly, we see and hear what they are doing.
It is a confused time of the governments, of which the citizens look to, for guidance. And how can the head guide, if it is not at peace with itself? Everybody regrets talking about the woe that is heading toward America and the woe that is in America. But, America brought this woe upon herself, by not doing Justice to her Black slaves.
Allah (God) wants to pay America for her injustice to her
lowly Black slave. Allah
(God) is
not bringing this woe on America because of her injustice to nations outside
of America. He is paying America for injustice to we, the poor Black man
in America, the Black slave!
America has not received much woe yet, for how she killed outright, the poor Black Man in the south (Georgia). America has hated her Black slave worse than she hates rattlesnakes. America has given her Black slave every evil and indecent name that she could think of while yet her Black slave has been her safety ground.
America does not want to admit to her trouble for her Black slave is still here. But, there will be no jobs for anybody. One calamity after another, befalling America. When she thinks that one calamity is going out, another is just entering! These constant calamities will continue until America is on her hands and knees admitting that Allah-u-Akbar (Allah is the Greatest).
Every prophesy of the prophets, prophesying of destruction, is aimed at America. This dreadful and awful trouble that is Divinely focused at America. I say to you, my Black Brothers and Black Sisters, Seek refuge in Allah. Fly to Allah. Come Follow me. I ask you to help me, to help you. But, you would rather see your money fall dead in the white man's hands than to offer it to me to try to help make some bread out of the earth for you.
Remember, "...the end of the war desolations are determined." Keep waiting with your disbelief and doubt. You shall soon come to know that what Elijah Muhammad has said to you is most certainly the truth!