Sorcery, Pharmaceuticals, & Babylon the Great

Originally posted on www.presentruth.com

SORCERY, PHARMACEUTICALS, AND BABYLON THE GREAT

Do you ever have something that just totally jumps out at you while you are studying the bible? I have a good one as of recent and I will share below.

I am intently studying the books of Daniel and Revelation. We live in a world where no one seems to no what is going on and since God knows the end from the beginning, I figured that I would seek His wisdom to understand all these events. I have come to the conclusion through my studies of Revelation 13 that without a doubt, there must be a great economic collapse before the end comes. This will usher in a time when the ‘beast’ can control us via our money supply-Revelation 13:16,17-

¹⁶And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

So that study I started has led me on to continue studying and trying to make sense of everything. The most recent thing that I have been looking into is the details in and around BABYLON THE GREAT.

Revelation 18 really goes into it and in verse 23 it says this:

²³And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

I want you to notice the way in which all the nations were deceived. Now the bible speaks in majorities. We can see from the book of Revelation that God will have a small group of people that are not deceived. The way in which the nations are deceived is through ’sorceries’. I have made it a new habit to look at any word and go and look up it’s original greek or hebrew context and meaning. The Newer Testament is originally in Greek. So when you look up the Greek of the word -Sorceries- it says this:

5331 φαρμακεία, φάρμακον [pharmakeia /far·mak·i·ah/] n f. From 5332; GK 5758 and 5760; Three occurrences;AV translates as “sorcery” twice, and “witchcraft” once.  1 the use or the administering of drugs. 2 poisoning. 3sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it. 4 metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry.

The word Sorcery or Sorceries is only used 6 times in the entire bible. The other four examples refer primarily to the practice of communicating with the dead aka necromancy. This was done in order to see of future events or find out answers. It is still practiced today and even the majority of the christian world believes that dead ones can speak to us if they want to. This is not biblical.

Of those 6 times that the word Sorcery or Sorceries is used, it is used in reference to ’speaking to the dead’ in the first four examples in the bible but not in the last two. The last two are derived from the same word and they are mentioned in the book of Revelation in Rev 9:21 and 18:23. The last two are derived from the definition above. They are derived from pharmakeia /far·mak·i·ah/ and look at the primary definition listed first and also the second. It deals heavily with the adminisration of drugs or poisons. For me this was an eye opener.

Do you realize how powerful the modern day ‘drug companies’ or can we say -pharmaceutical companies are? Do you realize how many people around the world are daily on a regimen that includes these drugs that are being manufactured by the billions of pills each and every day. It seems as though the more sick the world gets, the more pills, potions, lotions, injections, vaccines, etc that we are sold.

I am not making this up. You can read in your bible and in the greek the root word and the definition. This is another facet of Babylon the Great. It is a direct contradiction with God’s plan of the original diet and way of life as prescribed in the creation week. We are to treat the body as the temple of the holy spirit. If we are putting things into it that are poisonous or harmful is this not injuring the temple?

I know there are some rare drugs that may be an exception to the rule, but these are in the minority. The large majority of drugs are given because the person has violated the natural laws of health.

Christ paid the infinite price for each of us and the bible says in 3 John 1:2-² Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

This is clear evidence that Christ wants our physical health in the here and now to be as good as our spiritual health. Christ wants us to be healthy and with a sharp mind so that we will not be deceived. Matthew 24 is riddled over and over again to not be deceived in the last days. Babylon the Great will decieve with -sorceries- or modern day drugs/poisons via pharmaceuticals. What we do with this information is our ultimate choice.

blessings