Pharma NOT in the Business of Health, Healing, or Cure
Added by Lev/Christopher on June 30, 2009 at 1:00pm
Let’s look at the Pharmakeia …
(Rev 9:21) Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
(Rev 18:23) And 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.
The word sorceries in both of these passages is the greek word “Pharamakeiaâ€, let’s look at its meaning…
G5331 ΦαÏμακεία pharmakeia far-mak-i'-ah
From G5332; medication (“pharmacyâ€), that is, (by extension) magic (literal or figurative): - sorcery, witchcraft.
Can you see that there is a direct connection with the sorceries mentioned in the scriptures and the drugs that are given to us by the pharmacist?
(Gal 5:19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
(Gal 5:20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
(Gal 5:21) Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of YHVH.
The Greek word here used for "witchcraft" is:
Strong's # 5331:pharmakeia (far-mak-i'-ah); from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively): KJV-- sorcery, witchcraft. (DIC)
Vine's Dictionary brings this into perspective with the following:
SORCERY:
"Pharmakeia" (Eng., pharmacy etc.) primarily signified the use of medicine, DRUGS, SPELLS; then, POISONING; then, SORCERY, Galatians 5:20, R.V., "sorcery" (A.V., "witchcraft"), mentioned as one of "the works of the flesh." See also Rev. 9:21; 18:23
In the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament ca. 200 B.C.), Ex. 7:11,22; 8:7, 18; Isa. 47:9,12
"In sorcery, the use of DRUGS, whether simple or potent, was generally accompanied by INCANTATIONS and appeals to OCCULT powers, with the provision of various charms, amulets, etc., professedly designed to keep the applicant or patient from the attention and power of demons, but actually to impress the applicant with the mysterious resources and powers of the sorcerer."
Please understand that we are NOT against ALL use of medications; however, we want to cause YHVH's people to Teshuvah - Return to the ways of the Most High! His ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts higher than our thoughts. AMEIN!
