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[Adventurous]

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.

- Revelation 18:23

The word "sorceries" in Greek is "pharmakeia", from which we get the words "pharmacy", "pharmacist" and "pharmaceutical".

[jimwalton]

The way WE use the word has nothing to do with what the writers during NT times meant with it. Sorcery in NT times had very little similarity with today's pharmaceutical industry. Sorcery in NT times had often to do with the concoction of poisons. It was associated with the occult and spells.

[Big Man]

So like chemist in a laboratory concocting ingredients into the form of a pill that could end of destroying communities?

God put all the medicine we need here on the earth for us in the plants. Its us who chooses to eat food laden with chemicals, lack of exercise, sleep deprived, always exposed to strange unnatural frequencies (wifi, cell towers, and whatever else they have out here), extra chemicals in the water and the very air you breathe, I could go on.

[jimwalton]

You could go on, I'm sure, but this has nothing to do with the term pharmakeia in Revelation, the general pharmaceutical industry, or sorcery.

What chemicals are you talking about that you imply are designed to destroy communities? I'm curious, but it has really nothing to do with the industry that gives us medicines and chemically-based diagnostic tools.

Our chemical-laden foods, 5G towers, and polluted water have nothing to do with what Revelation is talking about.