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Sorceries

According to Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, the Greek translation to English is “pharmakeia, #G5331, from G5332; medication (pharmacy) that is (by extension) magic (literal or figurative):-sorcery. witchcraft. KJV Usage: sorcery (2x), witchcraft (1x).” From THE BIBLE with STRONGS

The title of this post is taken from Revelation 18:23. It is almost hid in the last two verses Revelation chapter 18; that describes the judgement of the great whore. It reads in full

“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. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” Revelation 18:23-24 (KJV)

In Revelation 18, we see the great whore working through the merchants, the great men of the earth, using her sorceries to deceive the nations. The merchants are the channels through which the great whore disseminates her message. Strong’s Concordance defines sorcery as medication.

I recently went to CVS to pick up medication for a family member. I was amazed at the how busy they were and their selves were overflowing with medicine.

The medication described in Revelation 18:23 is a different kind of medication. It is a drug that deceives people and its end purpose is to murder its victims.

My opinion is, this medication is spread through “commercial messages” designed to deceive people. The message inflames, inspires hate, greed and lust. The commercial may inform people with good information. The commercials twist people into dependence on “systems” as their source of provision.

Those producing fentanyl are simply saying, we are supplying a demand which allows us to earn a living.They say, somebody else down the supply line is adding other ingredients to their product. Yet their product, in a 12 month period murdered 100,000 people from fentanyl overdose.

What about all the other lies that strip people of their independence? ies strip people of their freedom:

“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the midst of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” 2 Peter 2:17-19

Pollution of the world

The apostle Peter says you escape the pollution of the world through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, verse 20. You don’t have to drink the cool aide. God promises to supply your ALL your need according to his riches in glory, Philippians 3:19. The problem is, however, we are ignorant of God’s system. We have build broken systems that can not produce!

“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ: grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escape the corruption that is the world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:1-4 (KJV)

What’s in your hands?

What are you building with? The wisdom of this world? Or the Word of God?

Jeremiah 2:12-14

“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, that can hold no water.”

When you make money you’re god and the thing by which you make daily decisions; you are heading for a major crash!

“Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness deliverers from death.” Proverbs 11:4 (KJV)

It took me years to learn these biblically based promises: according to Colossians 1:12-13, we have received an inheritance ( a portion) with the saints in light. We have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of his son. These promises may seem to be old fashion or as some say, out of date. Nevertheless, they are working in my life. They are producing fruit!

What is in your hands?

In Exodus chapter 4, God sent Moses to bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses made excuses for not being able to do the job. Finally God said to him, what is in your hand? There was a rod in the hand of Moses. God told Moses to throw the rod down. The rod became a snake. God told Moses to pick the snake up and it became a rod again. God told Moses to put his hand into his shirt and take it out, his hand became leprous. Again God told Moses to put his hand back into his shirt and take it out; his hand became whole again. God said, if they didn’t believe the voice of the first two signs, then he was to turn the river into blood.

When Moses got to critical point in bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, Exodus 14:15-16, God said,

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.”

I have been ministering on the subject of dominion, located in Genesis 1:27-28, where God instructed Adam and Eve to exercise dominion over everything moves upon the earth. Part of them exercising dominion dealt with being (1) fruitful (2) multiplying (3) replenishing (4) Subduing (5) having dominion. If the earth got out of alignment, it was Adam’s responsibility to bring it back into alignment by subduing his physical environment and bringing it into alignment to God’s will. If Adam’s natural environment got out of control, his job was to bring it back into control. This is why God said them, in Genesis 1:27

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE IT: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Then in verse 28, God gave Adam seed and said, it was for his food. God blessed them which simply means he commanded the earth to yield its increase to Adam. Everything within Adam environment was created to aid him in his assignment.

We know that Adam invited a third party into the garden of Eden, the serpent, which convinced him to eat the forbidden fruit. One of many things the serpent gained was seed,

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.“ Genesis 3:15

The seed of the woman would “bruise thy head”. The Hebrew word for bruise is^* “shuph” (H7779) means ‘to snap at, overwhelm, and break.’ The Hebrew word for, “head”, is *”rosh” (H7218) which carries the meaning, ‘of one in authority at any given time.’

(Source: BIBLE with STRONGS, online addition)

The Prince of the power of the Air

The serpent gained seed and he has worked that seed to his benefit. In Ephesians 2:2, the Bible calls him “the prince of the power of the air”, the spirit that works in the children of disobedience. The serpent works through people to carry out his agenda. The serpent has to work through people because people are the only part of earth’s creation that God invested dominion and authority over the works of his hands on earth. To exercise authority on the earth, you must be born of woman.

The prince of the power of the air influences culture. He works in it and through it. The Lady of Death has been around from the beginning of times. We see her influence in Isaiah 47:1-15, The Lady of the Kingdoms; in Jeremiah 11:-19, The Queen of Heaven; The great goddess Diana in Acts 19:1-41, whom all Asia worshipped and the world (v27).

Finally, we see Revelation, chapters 17 & 18, the judgment of the great whore that sits on many waters or rule over many people groups. The great whore sat upon a scarlet colored beast. She had written on her head many names of blasphemy. She is called, “BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF EARTH.” She is clothed in purple and scarlet, the colors of priestly garments. She was decked with gold, precious stones and pearls. She has a golden cup in her hand that is full of the names abomination and filthiness of her fornication or interaction with man. This woman was drunk off of the blood of the saints. This woman thrived off of human blood sacrifices.

“And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” Revelation 18:24

In Revelation 17 & 18, we see this woman represents Babylon, the kingdom of Darkness in alliance with kings and merchants,

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3