The farm-assisting pharmacists, whose ancient precedent goes back well over five thousand years: An ancient profession like other ancient professions. Ancient things like this are not a forever thing. The Book of Revelation predicts the demise of such things. God and His Son are shown to be presiders in the future over a removal of such things from human civilisation. Things that cause sin. So when it speaks of pharmacy, and deceptions it causes worldwide, we ought to want to be sure what it means. The words it uses, based on Pharmakoi in its Ancient Greek meaning, has a link to our English words for pharmacist, pharmaceuticals, and even farming today. The farm link is interesting. Farmers need ideas of things to grow and a market for selling them. Humans are constantly looking for ways of profiting from resources. Farm land is a major resource. The link from this to drugs is not hard to see. Jesus interestingly alluded often to a book of what he called scripture which tells more clearly this link. It is known today as the Book of Enoch, preserved as we have it today by the Ethiopian churches and Beta Israel groups since ancient times. Fragments of the scriptural scrolls of it were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Church Father writings quote from it. In this set of writings we find records of angels corrupting human society, apparently some 5,300 years ago, with knowledge including drug use from roots. Although it is rather obscure that it means roots for drug use, our knowledge from archaeology of that time does show the emergence of farming of roots for medicinal purposes. Ancient human societies did know how to turn farm land into medicinal resources. Other uses of land corrupted by angelic teachers, the Book of Enoch tells us, included metallurgy from mining. One of the links from metallurgy to corrupted practices was weapon production, for the art of war also taught by angelic fallen teachers. We see today how chemistry and land use combine to supply warfare, as well as supplying medicine. Things that cause sin and despair are going to be dealt with by Jesus when he returns for a thousand years of rule over this planet. But even before then, his teachings help us, if we believe, to turn from practices leading to sin and death. In turn, this saves us, if we follow his ways, from eventual condemnation when it will all be permanently ended in fire.
