- A US Geological Survey (USGS) national report of water samples tested in 30 states for 95 different prescription and over-the-counter drugs found two or more drugs in 75% of the water tested. 54% of the samples had 5 or more drugs. 34% of the samples had 10 or more drugs. The survey found pain relievers, tranquilizers, antidepressants, antibiotics, birth control pills, and chemotherapy agents, to name a few, in our drinking water.
- Top Ten Killers in the US; USA Today, April 24, 1998
- Journal of American Medicine, April 1998
- “The pharmaceutical industry offers ‘health’ to millions of patients, but does not deliver the products. Instead, it delivers products that simply relieve symptoms while promoting the underlying disease as a precondition for its future business. To cover up the fraud, this industry spends double the amount of money on covering it up than it spends on research into future therapies.” Dr. Rath files genocide charges against Pharmavia ICC in The Hague
The Spiritual Nature of Pharmaceutical Drugs
Website design By BotEap.com“just say no to drugs.” How many times have people heard this advice and still don’t think about going to the local pharmacy to pick up their prescriptions?
Website design By BotEap.comDrugs have become so mainstream; North America is awash in a sea of drugs, both legal and illegal. Prescription drugs have become so prevalent; traces of them are now showing up in the food chain and in our drinking water.1
Website design By BotEap.comWhat is perhaps more surprising is the number of people who die each year from adverse reactions to prescription drugs. The account is so high USA Today lists adverse drug reactions such as Fourth cause of mortality on their list of Top Ten Killers in the US2
Website design By BotEap.comWith such a track record, the pharmaceutical industry (and the medical profession that prescribes drugs) would be considered criminal by any other civilized standard. However, prescription drugs are not only legal, they are encouraged by both modern medicine and the Christian Church in the US That’s interesting because the Bible, the standard by which Christians live their lives, condemns the everyday use of any kind of drugs, potions, or spells, as well as poisoning or witchcraft. It is called pharmakeia in the original text and can be found in Galatians 5:19-21.
Website design By BotEap.comWhen faced with the teaching that God condemns pharmaceuticals, most Christians believe that the Apostle Paul had to be referring to illegal drugs (such as marijuana and heroin) when he wrote his letter to the Church in Galatia, surely not to prescription drugs. At least they are right in the first part.
Website design By BotEap.comNarcotics and hallucinogenic drugs were not uncommon in the first century AD. For example, the Oracles of Delphi apparently used Datura, a species of Jimson plant that contained powerful alkaloids, during their vision quests. So Christians have no problem defining pharmakeia within the parameter of hallucinogenic or mind-altering drugs. It is with legal drugs that many Christians do not see a dangerous and sinister spiritual connection.
Website design By BotEap.comIn fact: If Christians were as concerned about taking prescription drugs as they are about their children getting involved with illegal drugs, there would be far fewer deaths. That is because deaths from adverse reactions to prescription drugs are many times higher than deaths from illegal drugs.
Website design By BotEap.comIn fact, deaths caused by illegal drugs fell short of the numbers to even make the top ten list of drug killers. USA Today. However, many Christians worry about the latter (as if they were a scourge, and they are), while overlooking the physical and spiritual danger of the former. Many Christians think that legal drugs are different because they are part of our medical system. Simply put, they trust anyone wearing white robes to prescribe and dispense medications. They do so without understanding that everything related to the pharmaceutical industry violates fundamental spiritual truth and the teaching of God.
Website design By BotEap.comThere are many reasons why God condemns pharmakeia. Perhaps the main reason is that God calls himself Jehovah-rapha, God our Healer (Exodus 15:26). He wants us to look to Him for healing (to make us whole), because only He and what He has provided for healing can heal. King David recognized this fundamental truth when he wrote:
Website design By BotEap.comPraise, my soul, Jehovah, and Do not forget all your benefits– that forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, that redeems your life from the abyss and crowns you with love and compassion (Psalm 103:2-4)
Website design By BotEap.comWhen Christians place dependency on drugs, they unknowingly deny God the glory and ability to heal them. I know this is a difficult word of knowledge for many to accept, because many Christians are dependent on drugs. But they do it only because they do not see God in their hearts and minds as their Healer. They think the age of divine healing is over, so their faith for healing is now tied to a lie (a work of the flesh) called pharmakeia. God is a jealous God. So when we place our dependence on something other than God, we are, in effect, turning our back on him. We are saying, “God is not enough for me. He can’t or won’t heal me.”
Website design By BotEap.comThat does not mean that we should not seek medical help from a doctor. The problem, however, is that most doctors are secular and only know about pharmaceuticals, surgery and radiation. They do not know Yehovah-rapha and the healing provision He placed in the plant kingdom for our health and well-being. But in most cases it is not the doctor’s fault. Doctors only know how to treat patients according to the modality they were taught.
Website design By BotEap.comGod’s Word tells us, “Do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits” (I John 4:1). And again, “Examine all things. Hold fast what is good. Shun all kinds of evil” (I Thessalonians 5:21-22).
Website design By BotEap.comIf drugs really did work and heal people, without killing or hospitalizing many who take them, you wouldn’t be reading this article. But drugs don’t cure. At best, they only suppress symptoms. At worst, they hospitalize more than two million people and kill hundreds of thousands more each year.3 Does this sound like good spirit (good medicine) to you?
Website design By BotEap.comWe all need to understand that there are good and bad medicines. The difference between the two is that good medicine only heals and never harms. Bad medicine never heals and kills. Drugs that kill in the name of healing are not from God. They belong to Satan.
Website design By BotEap.comGod cannot accept any medicine that kills or maims in the name of healing. Such a modality is opposed to everything that God represents. God does not receive glory in death. God receives glory in healing the sick! The pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing the sick. Their only interest is to sell more drugs and get as many people as possible to start using drugs and keep them that way for the rest of their lives.4
Website design By BotEap.comThat last sentence, “keep them there for the rest of their lives,” plays a big part in what God cares about. When you read Galatians 5:21, you will see the following text: “Those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” The word “live” refers to everyday use, to depend, to make routine. In other words: To live.
Website design By BotEap.comThis brings us to the role that medications play in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs. The medications used here are primarily used on a temporary basis to stabilize patients for medical procedures and pain control. Without a doubt, when used in this way, drugs have saved many lives. This is good! People whose lives are saved in this way usually do not continue the medications that saved them. It is the people who “live” and stay on drugs to “manage” their lives that create the spiritual dynamic opposite to God.
Website design By BotEap.comToday, medications can be prescribed for almost any physical, lifestyle, or emotional problem: male impotence, baldness, poor sleep, arthritis, depression, pre- and post-menopause, acid reflux, anxiety, osteoporosis, acne, ADD, constipation and diabetes, among others. Some.
Website design By BotEap.comDrugs for these and many other ailments of life confuse us by falsifying the will of God in our lives. By creating alternate realities, the spirit behind these drugs can lead us away from God’s will into an illusion, a false reality of the truth. God’s Word lists pharmakeia as a work of the flesh, because those who turn to drugs (and those who encourage their use) place dependency on a false reality (an illusion) rather than on God our Healer. It is an insidious scheme, one that has prevented millions from knowing the healing power that God has given them.
Website design By BotEap.comThe healing of disease is one of God’s blessings for humanity. He never intended that one would have to spend half of his income on a man-made drug to live. He never intended medicine to be priced at “acceptable risk.” This is why God created provisions for our well-being and placed those provisions in the plant kingdom for future generations of mankind (Genesis 1:29).
Website design By BotEap.comIt is only the greed of man that creates a man-made substitute out of those supplies and then foists it on an ignorant populace as the ultimate miracle drug. The truth is that all man-made drugs are far inferior to the real thing. They are just one of the reasons God calls us to be sober and avoid Satan’s attacks (I Peter 5:8).
Website design By BotEap.comBut God did not place all the provisions for healing in the plant kingdom. Because He knew that there would also be sickness and disease that would affect man through the sins of man’s heart. These sins include fear, worry, jealousy, hatred, guilt, and the like. The spiritual root cause that causes these certain illnesses requires a cleansing of the heart that only God can achieve for the healing to take place.
Website design By BotEap.comAs long as humanity looks to itself for answers to life’s problems, there will always be confusion, human suffering, and needless death. Only God has the answer to life’s problems, including the well-being of our bodies and hearts. He is our creator. He knows you and me as individuals like no one else can. He is our all in all, our God, our Savior, our Provider, our Healer. He alone is Yehovah-rapha.
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