Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals - are these practices related to what God the Almighty and Jesus Christ call 'pharmakoi' in Revelation 21 and 22? Pharmakoi is translated sorcery or practising of magic arts in many English Bibles but it is a word more connected to drugs and medicines than the supernatural concepts we nowadays associate with sorcery and magic. Pharmakoi was a word used to translate words in the Hebrew scriptures related to sorcery but it had wider connotations and still has today. One online translation tool I used to translate the same word from modern Greek translated it as 'medic'. Use of roots for drug purposes to carry out abortions for prostitutes and the like seems to be an origin of the art. In general, attempts to undo consequences of immorality, and trying to extend life, using substances such as those extracted from roots. So 'root' may be the basis of the word 'pharma'. It also forms a basis for the related arabic word used to form the word 'alkaloid' which is an important part of pharmacy and 'alkali' too in chemistry. In fact chemistry and biochemistry too take their names from alchemy, one of the magic arts. However it is drugs and drugs work, legal and illegal, that seems particularly highlighted in words of Revelation 21:8 and 22:15 - a dire warning to us all.
I can understand Christians wanting to wish away the word used by God and by Jesus but the certainty is there in the word God gave because it came with a strong assurance of its veracity in Revelation 21 before mentioning pharmakoi: "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful...." then pharmakoi are listed for the lake of fire and likewise Jesus too said the same in Revelation 22:15 following pharmakoi listing among those to be in the Lake of Fire with assurance that it is He Himself who sent His angel to John to testify to it in Revelation. So certainly pharmakoi is there as one kind of person to be thrown into fire by God at the end Judgment. So many will want to bend it to mean something irrelevant and different to modern medicine and pharmacy and drug research, production and distribution both legal and illegal but God speaks for Himself.
I can understand Christians wanting to wish away the word used by God and by Jesus but the certainty is there in the word God gave because it came with a strong assurance of its veracity in Revelation 21 before mentioning pharmakoi: "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful...." then pharmakoi are listed for the lake of fire and likewise Jesus too said the same in Revelation 22:15 following pharmakoi listing among those to be in the Lake of Fire with assurance that it is He Himself who sent His angel to John to testify to it in Revelation. So certainly pharmakoi is there as one kind of person to be thrown into fire by God at the end Judgment. So many will want to bend it to mean something irrelevant and different to modern medicine and pharmacy and drug research, production and distribution both legal and illegal but God speaks for Himself.
