Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment." Much like Richard Schickel’s critique of the Mission Impossible movie that opened May 22, 1996, was the plot and mission of my great grandfather that exemplifies a lack of eternal weight beyond its ability to survive the crisis of the time in which it was fabricated.
In an interview granted to The National Educational Television Network in Phoenix, Arizona by the staff of San Francisco station KQED, my great grandfather, Elijah Muhammad was asked the following:
Question: How would you describe your mission?
Answer: “My mission is to give life to the dead. What I teach brings them out of death and into life. My mission, as the Messenger, is to bring the truth to the world before the world is destroyed. There will be no other Messenger. I am the last and after me will come God Himself. I do not say I will live so long as that, but when God comes, if it pleases Him, I may be with Him. However, if I am not with Him, this is the final. The truth I bring will give you the knowledge of yourself and of God.”
-Message to The Blackman in America, Chapter 133
Here we see the admittance of the hypocrisy of the lies and deception of my great grandfather from the mouth of Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1994, watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eSfiMoTnXps#t=165
The bible warns against those that would come to preach another Jesus, 1 Cor. 3:10.
In the book of Matthew Jesus makes it very clear of several reasons for his mission and what would come after him in John 16:7, 13
· Matthew 10:34 - “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.”
· Matthew 18:11 - “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.”
· John 16:7-Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
· John 16:13- Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
Unlike Elijah Muhammad whose mission was impossible because Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, Elijah was never able to fulfill his mission here neither eternally able to raise anyone from the dead because Jesus is the Resurrection and the life.
Choose this day who you will serve God or man.
Schickel, Richard (May 27, 1996). "Movie: Improbable". Time. Retrieved 2014-06-09.