Witches Brew/Pharmakia Red Alert

Hi folks, Paul Sames here again.
As you may or may not know, my family and I live on the West Coast of Central Florida, it is a lovely aquatic playground of beautiful beaches, awesome sunsets and interesting people. When Im at the beach watching a magnificent sunset, its hard to fathom that central and Southern Florida is ground zero for massive legal and illegal drug abuse and distribution.
Pharmakia is the Biblical term for drug addiction and abuse. It is the word from which we derive our moderm term "pharmacy and pharmaceutical". Pharmakia is the Greek word that is translated "sorcery" in many English Bible translations.
We often imagine that a sorcerer is a strange old Merlin like character in a pointy hat covered in sickle moons and stars, someone like the longhaired old wizard in Harry Potter movies.
The Biblical definition of a sorcerer is someone who relies on drugs or mind altering substances to produce a sense of peace, strength, prowess or spiritual experience to give excitement and meaning to life.
Hence, the old concept of witches flying on broomsticks after drinking their witches brews. The reason they thought they flew on brooms was that thy had ingested mind altering substances, often in their brews.
The whole American and Western culture in general has fallen under a huge spell of sorcery or pharmakia in every area of life, whether its steroids for physical power and strength, cocaine or amphetamines to give energy and alertness, narcotics for killing the discomforts of modern living or Hallucinogens/psychedelics to aid in an instant spiritual or religious experience.
Tragically many of the legally prescribed pharmaceuticals are just as dangerous and are even being abused more than the outlawed drugs like cocaine or heroin.
I watched a couple of great documentaries recently about the "painkiller pill mills" that have sprung up in Central and Southern Florida.
These so called pain clinics are prescribing multiple thousand of pills, mainly oxycodone (oxycontin) and other similar opioid pain killers to people who flock from all over the United States to legally obtain massive quantities and take back to other states to sell on the black market at up to $80 per pill.
Law enforcement from many states say nearly all the oxy pills can be traced back to the Florida pill mills. Experts estimate that 85% of illegal pills in the entire USA are being supplied from the mills in Florida. (Whats wrong with Florida lawmakers!) Why is there not a modern "Elliot Ness from the Untouchables" to shut these horror clinics down.
Oxycodone is basically a synthetic form of heroin with a different name. Many Oxy addicts in Massachussets and other states are injecting cheap heroin now as its actually cheaper to obtain a totally outlawed drug like heroin than pay the exorbitant street prices of oxy. These drugs have basically the same effect and addictive natures.
I heard a Massachussets law enforcement man say that around 75 soldiers had died in the wars in middle east in a certain period. In the same period around 3,500 young people had overdosed and died on narcotic painkillers. Do the math! Where are worst casualties being taken?--Right in the homes of the USA and her families! (and Australia Canada England etc)
The pharmaceutical industry and many doctors in the medical community are creating (wittingly or unwittingly) an international wildfire of devastating addiction. This ought not to be. This class of narcotics are the nuclear weapons for easing pain and they are being used in many cases indiscriminately, when simple NSAIDS (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc) would suffice. Nuclear warheads are not used blow up a machine gunner, a grenade would do.
I have personally been visiting people in hospitals when a nurse will walk in and ask the patient "On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being mild and 10 intense what is your pain level?" I have often heard people instantly say 10 with a calm expression and be administered Dilaudid, oxy or morphine for days on end and come out of hospital with the seeds of a narco addiction that will later ruin their lives.
If a person has a 10 pain level, they would most likely be screaming in agony not calmly describing what is often just a level of 3 or 4 discomfort that would respond to something far less potent and addictive.
Its time for Doctors to learn more about addiction, Im very glad to see Drs like Dr Drew Pinsky of "Celebrity Rehab" fame starting to educate other doctors and the public about addiction and the dangers of overprescribing.
I could write for hours about the horrors of cocaine, meth, heroin, and other drugs.
Suffice to say addiction, sorcery, pharmakia, abuse, or whatever term we use, the reality is, this is a massive, worldwide epidemic, destroying the entire fabric of nations.
The Bible in Rev 9:21 lists sorcery or drug abuse as one of the deadly end time habits of mankind, along with murder, theft, and sexual crime/abuse. It is easy to see how addiction aggravates the other 3 areas, addiction increases violence, crime to pay for habit, and sexual abuses and crimes.
There is an old saying in Christian circles.
If you want to take a pill, take the Gospill, then you wont need to take the others to get High. Another one is
"You get the Most High with the Most High."
Another one---If you want some speed take some Godspeed and run with Jesus.
If you want LSD--Go for Gods brand ---Love, Salvation and Deliverance!
If want to get drunk--Get some New Wine from Gods Upper room New Wine Bar.
If you want a rush---mainline Jesus--he is the Eternal Rush of Pure Love and Joy.
I know all of these sound like nice cute wordplays--but it is a fact--He is the Best High known to Mankind--there is not a drug or drink that can saisfy like Jesus.
Maybe one day the Rolling Stones will finally get some satisfaction--they have been singing "I cant get no satisfaction" long enough.
Jesus said if you drink living water and eat Living Bread from Heaven --you will never hunger or thirst again--its true.


Acts 2--The Message translation



Peter Speaks Up
15-21 These people aren't drunk as some of you suspect. They haven't had time to get drunk—it's only nine o'clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen:

"In the Last Days," God says,
"I will pour out my Spirit
on every kind of people: