Uncovering Health: Pharmakeia Agenda

If you know anyone that is dealing with addiction please help them get the necessary help they deserve. Pharmakeia a vice In ancient Greek, öáñìáêåéá = the use of drugs, potions, spells, and/or poisoning, witchcraft, magical potions. (See, e.g., the standard ancient Greek lexicon, by Liddell & Scott). In Koine Greek, especially in usage by ancient Jews and Christians, the word = sorcery, magic, etc. (As, e.g., in "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Liteature," by W. F. Arndt & F. W. Gingrich). the use or the administering of drugs poisoning sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry Defined a. the use or the administering of drugs (Xenophon, mem. 4, 2, 17). b. poisoning (Plato, Polybius, others): Revelation 9:21 (here WH text Tr marginal reading φαρμακῶν; many interpretations refer the passage to the next entry). c. sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it: Galatians 5:20 (Wis. 12:4 Wis. 18:13; for כְּשָׁפִים, Isaiah 47:9; for לָטִים, Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:18; for לְהָטִים, Exodus 7:11); tropically, of the deceptions and seductions of idolatry, Revelation 18:23. On this episode, we reveal the hidden hand behind sorcery in the United States of America. Join us on the Forefront Radio for this exciting podcast.