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WEDNESDAY CLASS
WEEK 44
Come Out of Her, My People
By
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
(The Final Call Newspaper)
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Study Course Instructions
This study course is designed to be done both in a
course room, mosque, study-group or self-paced
at home. Certain parts of this course (Key Word
Study) will be done with a partner. Other parts
will be done independently (by yourself). When
its time to partner, you and your partner (twin)
are to follow the steps provided in this guide.
The study course is laid out in the order you do
them. It is important not to skip any steps of the
guide. THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BE
FOLLOWED IN OUR CLASSES.
Purpose of this Study Course Guide:
The purpose of this study course guide is to guide
you through this course of study.
Time to Complete:
Although the hour and a half that we have for
study this evening will hopefully allow you to
progress through most of this study, however it is
strongly recommend that you continue to work
on this study course at home at your own pace.
Important Note: During the study course
session, if you have any questions raise
your hand for assistance. Each believer
(student) should have a copy of this handout and
its instructions to take home and continue
studying on their own. All steps may not be
completed in the class sessions in its entirety.
Study Course Steps
Step 1: Key Word Clearing
Key words are important words related to
key concepts found in the reading. Having a
good understanding of the meanings of these
words will help each student better
understand the important concepts and ideas
of the study, as well as eliminate
misunderstandings that come with
misunderstood words. Use the key word list
and definitions found in this packet to do the
drill (exercise) a and b.
1.) Select a partner (closest to you) and study the
Key Words together, through reviewing
the questions and answers to master. (If
done in course room or mosque/study
group the time allotted is 30-45 minutes)
2.) First time through: The student has the
questions and answers in front of him or
her. The partner asks the student the
question, and the student answers it.
He/She can look at the answer if needed.
The answer does not have to be
word-for-word or memorized; just
the concept must be correct.
3.) Second time through: Once finished with
the drill the first time, you start again
from the beginning, this time without
the answers in front of you. Your
partner asks the question and you
answers. If the answer is incorrect, your
partner shows you the answer. Look at the
answer again and repeat until you have
grasped the concept, then continue to the
next one.
Step 2: Independent Reading
After completing step one, you may begin to
read the selected reading materials.
Step 3: Check Your Understanding
Questions: Time Frame: 30 min
Review the lists of questions. Each question
Time
Frame:
min
is formulated
to check
your30
understanding
of
the key concepts and ideas found in the
reading. Answer each question on a sheet of
paper and be prepared to discuss your
answers at the conclusion of this session.
Sufficient time may not be given during class
session to answer all of the questions. If you
do not finish in class, please continue this
step at home.
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What is atonement?
Atonement is satisfaction or reparation
for a wrong or injury; amends. It comes
from Middle English phrase “at onement”
in harmony.
KEY WORD CLEARING
What does it mean to reconcile?
Reconcile means to make (oneself or
another) no longer opposed; cause to
acquiesce in something unpleasant. It
means to become friendly with (someone)
after estrangement or to re-establish
friendly relations between (two or more
people).
What is the definition of separation?
Separation means the act of keeping apart
or dividing as by an intervening barrier or
space. It is a place, line, or point of
parting.
What is meant by the phrase “crabs in a
barrel?”
“Crabs in a barrel” refers to a syndrome
where a group of like situated people hurt
those in their community attempting to get
ahead.
What does it mean to be disillusioned?
Disillusioned means having lost one's
ideals, illusions, or false ideas about
someone or something.
What is affliction?
Affliction is a state of pain, distress, or
grief; misery.
What does pharmaceutical mean?
Pharmaceutical means of or relating to
drugs or pharmacy.
What is a tare?
A tare is a noxious weed, probably the
darnel.
What is the meaning of abomination?
An abomination is anything greatly
disliked or abhorred; intense aversion or
loathing; detestation. It means a person
or thing that is disgusting.
What does permeate mean?
Permeate means to pass into or through
every part of; to spread or flow
throughout; pervade.
What does extinct mean?
Extinct means no longer in existence; that
has ended or died out.
What does it mean to meddle?
Meddle means to involve oneself in a
matter without right or invitation;
interfere officiously and undesirably.
What is meant by savagery?
Savagery is meant an uncivilized or
barbaric state or condition.
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Come Out of Her, My People
By
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
[Editor's note: The following are excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's address on the occasion of the 12th
Anniversary of the Million Man March, delivered from the Atlanta Civic Center on October 16, 2007.]
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
On this day, the 12th Anniversary of the Million Man March, on the 16th day of October, we call it a Day of
Atonement. For us atonement means being at one; at one with God and at one with each other, working to reconcile all
our differences and accepting the responsibility to pull ourselves and our people up out of the condition in which we
find ourselves.
We have chosen the city of Atlanta to bring this message of Atonement, Reconciliation and Responsibility. We thank
Mayor Shirley Franklin, the City Administration, Chief of Staff, Mr. Gregory Pridgeon for what they have done to aid
us in our walk against prostate cancer. We thank Mayor Shirley Franklin for honoring us and presenting us with the
Phoenix award. We thank Councilman Ivory Young Jr. and the City Council for their proclamation on behalf of the
city. We thank them for the permit they gave us. We thank the police chief and the members of his staff and the
authorities, for allowing us to have a peaceful Walk for Life/Walk for Prostate Cancer, to give many Black men who
might have probably died from this dreaded disease, a chance to get the necessary testing that would allow us to catch
this disease in its earliest stage. We are honored to be in the great city of Atlanta, in the great state of Georgia, the
birthplace of the man that I represent, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
I am so honored by all of these magnificent and wonderful persons that are seated on this stage to my left and my right;
members of the clergy, members of the political elite of the city, my beloved Brothers and Sisters in hip hop. All of
you honor me by your presence. I'm just overjoyed that my big Brother, who is really the patriarch now of the Civil
Rights struggle, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery is here. We are honored to have you. He looks so young and so
vibrant and he sounds so strong. My Brother from SCLC who is now carrying the torch of Dr. King, Dr. Abernathy,
and Martin Luther King III and Rev. Joe Lowry and all those who came before, Brother Charles Steele. He was so
fired up, I have to be careful; I won't hit that podium anymore. I want to thank the president of Morehouse, the
president of Clark Atlanta University, the president of Spelman. Atlanta is indeed blessed with this great college
campus and all of these wonderful institutions. My plea to the presidents of these institutions is that you understand the
time, and what is required of the time, and not make these schools plantations that bring children out to be servants of
those that their fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers served. Bring them out with an education that will
allow them to prepare a future for themselves and their people, not coming out looking to a benevolent corporate
America for a job.
Be ye separated
I want to talk to you today about what Allah, God means in the language of separation and why separation is a
necessity for the people of God today. I want to explore in the scriptures what Jesus meant when he said, “Be ye
separated.” I would like to think over with you the parables that Jesus made in the New Testament of the Kingdom of
God, where this Kingdom was produced by separation. Two would be grinding at the mill and He would take one and
leave one. Two would be lying in the bed—that's real close—but He would take one and leave one. And then he made
parables of the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven talking about the separation between the wheat and the
tare, the sheep and the goat, because these two things, the sheep and the goat had two different natures; the wheat and
the tare had two different natures.
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God is interested in saving the righteous. So that puts everybody in the valley of decision as to which one are we? Am
I the one who will be left in the bed? Am I the one who will be left at the well? Am I a tare that wants to strangle out
the wheat? Am I a goat that wants to mislead the sheep?
Come out of her, My people
I want to talk to you today, about that voice in the 18th chapter of Revelations, a voice from heaven saying, “Come out
of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven.” This
means that the deviation, the abomination and filth of this world permeates America and it has even reached the holy
people. Jerusalem is no longer a holy city except in name, for the filth and abomination of this Mystery Babylon has
reached Jerusalem. It has reached Mecca, it has reached Medina, and Rome, as the seat of Christendom where the Pope
as the vicegerent of Christ resides, the filth and abomination of Satan's world has reached Rome and The Vatican.
In other words, the sin of this world has reached the height and the degree where God, Himself is angry and is now
sending plagues that reflect His absolute displeasure with the degree of sin and the abominations that have engulfed
God's people and the world that is ruled by Satan. Even the Holy Qur'an, which is the Book of scripture of Muslims,
says in these words, “Set your face for religion, being upright before there come from Allah that which cannot be
averted. And on that day they shall be separated.”
It is apparent that we cannot avert or avoid what the prophets predicted about the destruction and end of a world that
has earned His (God's) wrath. Jesus said he was in the world, as we are in the world, but Jesus, though he was in the
world, he was not of the world. The problem with us is we are in it (the world) and we are of it, so a voice has to come
up saying, “come out of her.” We're in the most dangerous and troubling time since human beings have been on the
planet, so “come out of her” has great meaning now to avoid complete extinction and complete destruction.
Man's disrespect of God's creation
We give former Vice President Al Gore a lot of credit for his warning of the consequences of environmental
destruction. The melting of the glaciers and the melting of ice in the Arctic will continue to have a destructive affect on
different mammals, different creatures, insects, green life, life that has a treasure in it. Allah (God) says in the Holy
Qur'an that in everything that He created, He holds the treasure of it. But how to extract from the human what God has
put within can only happen if those of us who are given stewardship over human life, know how to extract that treasure
and put it into the service of self, community and the world. All of the institutions of man have failed to extract the
treasure that's in the human and the treasure that is in everything that God creates. From the mother and the father who
produces children, but does not know how to train them up in the way that they should go, to the teachers in school; to
the Pastors, the Preachers, the Imams, the Mullahs, the Sheiks, those in high places in religion, those kings and rulers
and presidents, all have failed to extract the treasure of the earth and the treasure in the human soul. It is because all
have become victims of Satan's blinding touch.
Man's meddling, his disrespect for the value of the environment, the value of water, the value of the oceans, the value
of the lakes and rivers, the value of the rainforests, man's greed and excesses and man's disrespect for God and man's
disrespect for the value of everything that God created to maintain and sustain life is now leading to our total
destruction.
Black male endangered
The Black male is in a very particular place of endangerment not only by environmental factors, but the Black man's
attitude, our ignorance, our savagery, are all lending to a plan, a conspiracy. The scientists say that when a species is
endangered, the next stage is extinction. If the condition of the Black Male in particular is not checked and if God does
not intervene, we will soon be extinct.
Now, both the Bible and Holy Qur'an speak of the problem, which Pharaoh and his chiefs faced with the booming
population of the Children of Israel and the fear that God would restore those people and give them land. According to
the Holy Qur'an, I'm quoting now, the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, “Would you leave Moses and his people to make
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mischief in the land and forsake you and our gods?” Pharaoh said, “We will slay their sons and spare their daughters.
Surely we are dominant over them.” This scripture from the Holy Qur'an is verification of the same condition
described in the first chapter of Exodus where Pharaoh's answer to this question is the same. Pharaoh said, “If it be a
son, then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.” The fact is, that it was the design of Pharaoh and
those with him to cause the extinction of the male children of the Children of Israel. That wasn't accidental; that was a
conspiracy. And since this destruction of the male in that day was by design and in the time of Jesus and Herod it was
by design, so it is today.
Black middle class, crabs in a barrel
Some of us look around at American society and we see some Blacks doing well, making what we think is progress
and wealth and prestige, and we say, “We're moving on up now. Things aren't so bad. Why look at Oprah, Barack
Obama, P. Diddy, Tiger Woods, Clarence Thomas. Look at Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Aren't they clear
signs of progress?” Much has been said about the growth of the Black middle class and how it appears we have finally
turned the corner in our quest to attain the American dream. But is this real? Is it one of the tricks of Pharaoh and his
magicians? Is it designed to delay our attainment of the true Kingdom of God for His people? In reality we have the
illusion, the trappings of progress, but little else to show for our 452 years in bondage as slaves and now as free slaves
in North America.
Now, if we look at the proverbial crabs in a barrel, the crabs are trying to get up, but another crab is pulling the crab
down. But just suppose somebody is at the top of the barrel looking at the crabs, watching the drama of the crabs. And
suppose he or she says, “Come, let us deal wisely with those crabs. Let's take a few out of the barrel and put them at
the top of the barrel and let them look back down on the other struggling crabs. If we do that it will give the other crabs
the notion that they, too, can get out.” But the crab that's at the top of the barrel didn't get out because of his own talent
and ability alone. The crab got out because the master took him out and allowed him out for the master's purpose!
Now, let's look at the wealthy and the famous among us. They have become a buffer between the angry Black masses
and White people of power and influence that have us looking at our own rich as though they have betrayed us, when
the wise demons behind them have used them as a buffer to protect them from the anger of the poor White, the poor
Black and the poor Brown. That is why you can never be an effective spokesperson for the hurt of your people because
if you displease the crab barrel master, you are afraid that he might put you back in the barrel and not pluck you out
again. But God took me out of the barrel; I don't owe nothing to no master! I owe it all to God! And God will take us
all out of the barrel; and He will never take one out, and not show the others that He can get them out too.
The enemy of the rise of our people has captured most of the Black intellectuals, the Black middle class, the Black
moneyed people and told them, “Yes, you can fight for your people but only to a level that we approve of and you'd
better not ever say, ‘come out of us.' You will not be allowed to say that and you certainly will not be allowed to do
that.”
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that no one person can rise above the condition of his people. Then neither can
the Black middle class rise above the condition of the masses.
Spiritual wickedness in high places
Well, this is 2007, but the weight of the police force is still against Blacks and Latinos, so the police are still fulfilling
what they were originally organized for. And the police need people on the police force, Black and Hispanic as well as
White, who make examples of the Black and the Brown and the poor. So, you fill your jails with them. In 1957, the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in a debate with J.B. Stoner, the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. It was a debate
in written correspondence. Mr. Stoner said that in the future, the Klan will not wear robes. They would be in the
various police departments, in the various offices of government. They would be in corporate America, but their idea
would be the same as those who had the hoods and hanged and castrated and beat Blacks and burned crosses on their
lawns. And this is what we are seeing today. Thurgood Marshall became a Justice in the Supreme Court, one of our
first Black men to serve on the Supreme Court. He was one of the lead attorneys who fought for equality in education.
But Thurgood Marshall became disillusioned on the Supreme Court and he said these words, “The KKK used to wear
white, but now they wear black.” What was Thurgood Marshall saying? That in the highest court of the land, the
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mentality of the Supreme Court was the same as the lynchers and murderers of our people since slavery. The same
mentality that was on the plantation is now in the highest court of the land and also from the highest political offices
and even religious offices. And this is why Paul said,“We war not against flesh and blood but against principalities,
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Given these dire statistics and this desperate condition we must ask some hard questions of our spiritual leaders.
According to statistics, almost nine of every 10 Blacks consider themselves Christian, but I must ask our religious
leaders, whose preachers are we? Who do we belong to? See, if we truly belong to Christ, we can say, “Come out of
her and be not partakers of her sins and her plagues.” So we have to ask our religious people, even Muslims, who want
to water down the religion to make ourselves pleasing to American government and politics in a time of hatred for
Islam, whose Imams are we? Whose Rabbis are we? Are you comfortable asking your flocks to come out and separate
themselves from this evil world of wickedness, into righteousness and decency and help The Mahdi or Jesus Christ or
the Messiah to build the Kingdom of God on earth? Can you do that? Are you willing to do that? If not...why not?
I must remind you that Jesus had an altogether different disposition than most of us as religious leaders are willing to
show. It is written that on his return, he was not going to come to bring peace to the earth. He said, “Think not that I
come to bring peace, nay a sword.” On his return, he's seen coming back with a sword in his hand dripping with
blood. He comes to execute the wicked to establish his Kingdom on earth. So, I can't follow Bush! I cannot follow the
rulers of this world!
Pharaoh's modern army
Should we desire to come out of this and create something new and better under the guidance of God? Should we
separate from this? Wait, just think...Pharaoh has actually let us go. Pharaoh has nothing more for us to do except fight
in his unjust wars or serve in his prison industrial complex. Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron, “Rise up and get you
forth from among my people, both you and the Children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as you have said.” But he only
did this after the last plague, which was the plague of death. Death came into his house and killed his firstborn and then
after that he said, “Take your people and just get out of here!” Then, Moses gave the Children of Israel God's
command and they did according to the word of Moses. But then Pharaoh had a change of heart because the slaves that
God wanted to use, that He produced and purified through the furnace of affliction, Pharaoh then felt threatened that
they would one day supplant him. So, he decided to kill them all and he sent his army after Moses and the Children of
Israel.
Now, what is the army that Pharaoh sent out to kill the Children of Israel? What is this army that the modern Pharaoh
has sent out to kill the children of the former slaves, since we are the fulfillment of the prophetic picture of the
Children of Israel? What is Pharaoh's army? Is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a part of that army? Is the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a part of that army? Are the pharmaceutical companies a part of that army? Is the
American Medical Association (AMA) a part of that army? Are the court system and the prison system a part of that
army? Is the closing of hospitals in the Black community, is that part of the plan? Is the placement of Black people
near hazardous waste sites, is this a part of the armed forces that have been let loose to kill the modern Moses and
Aaron and to kill the modern Children of Israel? Look at the death rates among Black people. Look at the diseases that
afflict us. Look at the government policies that promote this destruction in the Black community. Is this an accident or
is this on purpose? The army is behind us, but the Red Sea is in front of us and the Red Sea represents war, revolution
and bloodshed that is going on. The only way we can get through that Promised Land which God has promised, is that
there must be a parting of the Red Sea that the righteous may go through safely. This is why we are here today and this
is why the Bible and the Holy Qur'an suggest a plan of salvation for the righteous. Are you ready to come out?
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STEP 3: Check Your Understanding
The following questions are for discussion at the conclusion of the study session. The remaining
questions can be completed at your own pace as you continue your study at home. You can use your
book if you need help answering the questions. Write your answers on a sheet of paper.
Questions For Discussion:
1. What does atonement mean? Why is it such an important process?
2. What was The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's plea to the Black College
Presidents in Atlanta?
3. What has the sin of this world caused?
4. What is leading man to his total destruction?
5. Why is the theme and principle of separation often conveyed by God in both Bible &
Holy Quran (scriptures)? Why is separation necessary?
6. Why is the Black man considered endangered?
7. Can the governments of this time be compared with Pharaoh in the time of Moses?
Explain and give examples.
8. In what ways are we to “come out of her?” Why?
9. What has been designed to delay our attainment of the true Kingdom of God?
10. What are the causes of the ineffectiveness of so-called Black Leadership?
11. What do the black middle class and the “crabs in the barrel syndrome” have to do
with our struggle to separate from the enemy?
Questions For Further Study:
1. What does the "voice" in the 18th chapter of Revelations mean?
2. What was J.B. Stoner's prediction for the KKK? Is it true? Explain.
3. How can we get to the "Promised Land"?
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