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6. A Review And Update About Drugs by Carol Balizet

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A Review And Update About Drugs

by Carol Balizet


In our society, we have manufactured an artificial division in drugs; we call some "medications;" and call them good, while others are considered bad. God says all drugs are bad.


Contents:

  1. Drugs and medications:are they different
  2. Jesus "just said no" to drugs
  3. Jesus and drugs
  4. Pharmakia
  5. A brief history
  6. Drug trafficking
  7. Costly, tested, but still unsafe
  8. Examples of past problems
  9. Actions by the AMA
  10. Americas drug culure
  11. God speaks to me about Valium
  12. And the real problem is
  13. Children on drugs
  14. Drugs: A doorway to the spirit
  15. Raising drug free children
  16. The future our children will face
  17. Satan's weapons: Rebellion and witchcraft



Drugs and medications:are the different?

In our society, we have manufactured an artificial division in drugs; we call some "medications;" and call them good, while others are considered bad. (Just like witchcraft, which some people divide into either good or white witches, and bad or black witches. God says all witchcraft is evil and He says "suffer; not a witch to live." (Exodus 22:18.)
He also says all drugs are evil.

Jesus "just; said no" to drugs

There is a significant teaching about the use of drugs to be found in the Bible, and five clear warnings against drug taking in the New Testament. Four drugs, in addition to alcohol, are named in scripture: hemlock, gall, wormwood and myrrh. (The last two are very potent narcotics, both more powerful than opium). Although myrrh is also used as a cosmetic, almost every Biblical references to drugs is in a context of despair, mourning, grief and danger, and drugs are never connected with healing,

I want to repeat that. In the Bible, drugs are never connected with healing. They are usually connected with misery and gloom.

Jesus and drugs

The book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin. And He was tempted to use a narcotic. Let me explain.

Crucifixion might possibly be the most agonizing method of execution ever devised by man. It originated with the Persians and was refined by the Romans. In Jesus' day, its use was confined to the slave class, or to perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. It was basically a death of exhaustion and suffocation, and it sometimes took days for the victim to die.

It was carried out under the charge of Roman soldiers, who had available at the crucifixion site two different liquids. One was simply wine, (called vinegar in the KJV, and wine vinegar in the NIV). It was to quench thirst. The other was sour wine, fermented and strongly alcoholic, to which was added gall and/or myrrh. This mixture was a strong narcotic, available for use when the soldiers were feeling particularly humane.

Jesus was offered both these drinks. He did accept the one which merely quenched His thirst: Matthew 27:48: "And; straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink."

Mark 15:36:"And; one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink..."

John 19:29-30: "Now; there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received it, He said, It is finished."

He refused to drink the other liquid, the one which contained drugs:

Matthew 27:34: "They; gave Him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when He had tasted thereof, he would not drink."

Mark 15:23: "And; they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He received it not." If there were ever a justification for the use of a pain-killer, surely this was it. The torment was intense: the scourging, the crown of thorns, the crucifixion itself, protracted bleeding and sweating leading to the "somatic; thirst" of electrolyte imbalance. Surely any one in this position would eagerly grasp whatever pitiful bits of comfort he was offered. But not Jesus. He refused to alter His perception of reality with a drug; He refused to leave us an example of accepting that option.

Pharmakia

The scriptural teaching about drugs isn't always clear at first reading, because the word used is not translated "drug; taking".; For some reason, the primary definition of this word - which is some form of the word "medicine;" - is never used in our modern English Bibles. The usual translation is "sorcery;".;

The word we're dealing with is pharmakia in Greek, and the English words pharmacy, pharmacist and pharmacology are derived from it. In Vine's Dictionary of New Testament Words, pharmakia is defined: "Primarily signifying the use of medicine, drugs, spells; then poisoning; then sorcery, witchcraft."

In Strong's Concordance it is #5331: "Medication by extension magic, literally or figuratively, sorcery, witchcraft".;

Strong's #5332 is "A; drug, spell-giving potion, druggist, poisoner, by extension a magician or sorcerer." This word is translated "sorcery;" in the KJV and "User; of magic arts" in the NIV. Imagine our conversations if we used the true meanings of these words:

"Susie;'s asthma was kicking up, so we gave her some poison."
"Most; elderly people take at least eight different witchcraft potions a day."
"He; wasn't getting any better, so he needed a re-fill on his spells and incantations."
"He; has the flu, and the magic the doctor prescribed hasn't done much good."
"Our; HMO doesn't pay for sorcery, but the government probably will force them to before long."
"I;'ll be a little late; I need to run by the poisoner's and have my prescription refilled."
I could keep doing this, but you get the idea.

Here are some Scriptures on the subject:

  • Revelation 21:8: "But; the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
  • Revelation 22:15: "For; without [the Holy City] [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
  • Revelation 9:21:"Neither; repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."


So sorcerers have their part in the lake of fire; they are named as one group of people who are kept outside the City (the New Jerusalem) along with dogs, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters and liars; and sorcery is defined as one of four end-time sins (the others being murder, fornication and theft).

And what is really being discussed, the thing which is banning people from the City, consigning them to the Lake of Fire and being named a major sin of the end times, is the taking of drugs.

A brief history

The world today is awash in drugs. They are so widely used and so all pervasive in our society that those who take no drugs at all are a tiny, tiny minority. But it was not always like this.
Apparently the use of drugs as a social problem, either lawful (AKA medical) or unlawful drugs, was pretty well confined to the Orient until about the beginning of the 20th century. At this point, the use of, and trafficking in, opium began to spread, and an international reaction took place. There was a major (for that time) conference in Shanghai and later a convention at the Hague. But before any serious progress was made, war broke out (in 1914) and dealing with the drug problem took a back seat to global combat.

After that war, drug use increased worldwide, mostly opium and its derivatives. The drug-producing nations waxed fat on profits; and the traffic, as well as the corruption and wretchedness it bred, had a not-too-subtle effect on society as a whole. The problem was given to the League of Nations, a short-lived predecessor of the United Nations. They pioneered an international approach, with various law-enforcement bodies cooperating across national boundaries. These efforts achieved some real, if limited, progress. Then in the late 1930's the Second World War began in Europe, and once again warfare against bullets was given priority over warfare against drugs.

After this war, the international fight against drugs was in the hands of the United Nations. This body didn't need to start from scratch, for some structures were left from the old League of Nations, but the parameters of this battle had changed. The world had shrunk; communications, modes of travel and shipping, international banking and even technology served the growth of the drug trade.

In the fifty years plus since the end of that war, there has been an almost unbelievable increase in the use of drugs, both legal and illegal. We all hear and lament the rise in the sale of so-called street drugs, and probably no one - with the exception of those who profit from this - call it a good thing. But only a few of us see the even greater evil of the increase of pharmaceuticals. And it's worse because it's an evil which is just as dangerous, destructive and forbidden by God, but still called good. And it is sanctioned by the Church.

A corollary to this is the medical system's increasing policy of designating all kinds of social and emotional problems as medical conditions. Unruly children are labeled as L.D.H.D., unhappy people are not just unhappy but are "Clinically; Depressed".; What used to be called a brat is now called a hyperactive child. Lustful people are sexual addicts; our encounters with a world full of sin and evil are masked as "social; disorders".; And the solutions to all these problems - and more - are so simple! Just take some drug!

You're suicidal? Take Prozac. Depressed? There's always Valium. In pain? You have a panoply of choices. Forgetful? Feverish? Fearful? Forsaken? Just step right up and choose your magic elixir! There's a drug for every human need and in most cases we can get somebody else to pay for it. And most of the time you can't tell the Church from the World.

Isaiah told us in Chapter 5 of his book, "woe; to those who call evil good!" And he was speaking for God when he said it.

Drug trafficking

Let's look at the drug industry. It's very big business. The United States maintains an overwhelming lead in the production and sale of drugs; eleven of the world's eighteen leading drug firms are located here. Each year, doctors in the U.S. write 1.6 billion prescriptions.
While other countries have negotiated prices with pharmaceutical companies, we Americans have let the drug industry decide for itself what to charge. Therefore drug prices went up at three times the inflation rate during the 1980's, an enormous 152%, and the average cost of the twenty drugs prescribed most often for the elderly has quadrupled in the past seven years.
Hearings by the Senate Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee into abuses by pharmaceutical companies revealed that drug manufacturers routinely showed profits of from 10,000% to 20,000% for their drugs. We pay the world's highest prices for our medicine. Europeans pay 54% less for 25 common drugs.

And the solution offered to cure this monstrous bite out of our national coffers is for the federal government to foot the bill. Are you comforted? Does our government have a record of success in the handling of money?

Costly, tested, but still unsafe

For all their cost, it simply isn't wise to assume that all drugs are safe and effective, tested and found beneficial. (It's interesting to note that the most dangerous drugs are also the most profitable because they produce dramatic, easily seen results.) In fact, the Office of Technological Assessment of the U.S. Government states that 95% of the drugs on the market have not been proven to work. Almost all testing is done to determine toxicity, not effectiveness.

We can question the "research;", too. The National Bureau of Standards reports that half or more of the numerical data published by scientists is unusable because there is no evidence that the researchers accurately measured what they claimed to be measuring. Just one illustration of this point: 31 authors of scientific reports were sent questionnaires asking for their raw data; only twenty one replied and they ALL said that their data had been "lost;" or "accidently; destroyed"! Sixty Minutes on January 17, 1988 presented an expose of the abuses within the community of scientific researchers. They estimated that up to 30% of all research projects carried out in the United States is totally faked. One scientific scholar advised, "I; would think twice before I believe what I read in the medical journals... it is dishonest, fraudulent material." We must remember that this kind of possibly faked data is usually the basis for the acceptance or denial of new drugs.

After the laboratory work, then there is the stage of clinical testing. First the new drug is given to a small number of healthy people. Next the drug is given to a larger group; frequently it's given secretly to school children, hospital patients or inmates of mental institutions, but by far the most common group for testing is the population of our prisons. (Upjohn and Parke-Davis have acquired "exclusive; rights" to the inmates at Jackson State prison in Mississippi, for example). An article in Business Week explains: "Tests; at the prisons are designed primarily to measure the toxicity of the drug rather than its efficiency... doses are built up gradually to the point where adverse reactions occur." Prisoners are paid thirty cents a day for submitting to the experiments.

Examples of past problems

Within the departments concerned with the safety and effectiveness of drugs, things are pretty disorganized. For example, in September of 1980, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would remove from the market more than three thousand drugs whose effectiveness had not been proven. During the previous year, Americans had spent more than one billion dollars on these same "unproven;" drugs, many of which had been accepted by the AMA.

Many times dangerous drugs are sold in America, complete with all sanctions, seals and imprimaturs. A case in point: Diethylstilbestrol was widely used from the 1940's to the 1970's as a synthetic female hormone, routinely prescribed to prevent miscarriage. It was not tested for possible side effects. Despite evidence that it might be precipitating negative sequelae, it continued in use until after the long term effects began to appear: cancer of the breast, liver damage, and genital malformations and vaginal cancer in the daughters of those treated with it.

In 1949, Park-Davis' Chloromycetin was hailed as a new wonder drug. Several doctors were persuaded to give it to their children, some of whom then died of leukemia. Aplastic anemia was sometime a result from the administration of Chloromycetin; it was fatal in 75% of the cases.

Hoffman LaRoche marketed an intravenous drug, Versed, which was linked to forty deaths in two years by FDA studies. Ritalin, now the drug-of-choice of educators for treating so-called hyperactive children, has had a 97% increase in use since 1985. Students are sometimes forced to take this drug or face being expelled from school. The Wall Street Journal of January 15, 1988, reported that a number of lawsuits have been filed against schools by parents who are resisting the forced use of Ritalin.

Another drug, Tryparsamide, manufactured by Merck, was a dangerous arsenical drug. It was abandoned by its discoverer, Paul Ehrlich, when he found that it caused blindness by atrophying the optic nerve. Ehrlich's warnings did not prevent Merck from continuing to distribute the drug. One of the most destructive errors was the approval of sulfathiazole in the 1940's. The first 400,000 tablets sold by the Winthrop Drug Company contained as much as 5 grains each of Luminal. The safe dosage of Luminal is 1 grain. There were a number of fatalities.



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Actions by the AMA

Dr. Emmanuel Josephson, writing for Science Magazine, states that the AMA "...deliberately; concealed the benefits of Vitamin E therapy for more than twenty five years. This is only one of instance of hundreds where the AMA withheld life-saving information from the public".; Dr. Josephson continues, "The; history of the AMA... is replete with betrayals of professional and public trust. Drug products of the highest value have been rejected or their acceptance unwarrantedly delayed. Worthless, dangerous or deadly foods and drugs have been hastily accepted."

Americas drug culture

We can not blindly follow the current vogue of "better; living through chemistry", expecting God to bless us - and it - when He has forbidden the use of drugs. Again, to emphasize, there is no scriptural distinction between a drug and a medication; actually there's none with modern society either, except a medication is a drug some other person has told us to take.

This phenomenon is similar to the Papal dispensations given to Catholics. If there is some principle or law infringing on a Catholic's life - or maybe just something he doesn't want to do - the individual may be released from any requirement to obey by a dispensation. (A good example of this is the commanded Lenten fast). In reality, it's saying, "The; will of God is subject to the will of some man. I don't need to obey it because a priest - or a doctor - says I don't." And almost everybody, Christian as well as Pagan, sets aside the clearly revealed will of God for drugs (and for pelvic exams). Of course the Lenten fast is the will of man to begin with, but the principle's the same.

In America we hear much about the drug culture. And truly here is an incredible use of drugs in this country, but the drugging of the population is not limited to sleazy pushers and rebellious teenagers. Most of America's drugging is done with pharmaceuticals. (Incidentally, here's an interesting fact. Only 26% of drug overdoses are caused by street drugs; the rest are done with legal drugs, pharmaceuticals.)

And why do Americans take so many drugs? Even the system admits many of them aren't necessary. As long ago as 1972, Dr. Henry E. Simmons, then director of the Bureau of Drugs at the FDA, testified before a Senate hearing: "At; least 60% of hospital patients who receive antibiotics don't need them." Another witness, Dr. Harry F. Dowling said production of antibiotics had jumped more than 300% in the previous decade. "This; would amount to about fifty doses of an antibiotic for every man, woman and child in this country per year," he said.
Who is taking all those drugs, and what does it do for them?

Here's a possible hint: in 1978, 363,800,000 prescriptions were written in the United States. 60,000,000 were prescriptions for Valium, for a total of 16,000,000,000 capsules. This resulted in a gross profit of $300,000,000 for the manufacturer.

Part of the reason is profit.
These statistics on Valium are more interesting when you consider this fact: to a great extent, the indications for taking this particular drug and the side effects from taking it are the same - tremors, nervousness, anorexia, depression, etc. Millions of people spend great amounts of money to take a highly addictive drug, which the facts say may only increase the symptoms they're trying to control.

God speaks to me about Valium

There's a definite relationship between Valium and depression. In the hospital one night, as I walked down a dark hall making rounds as House Supervisor, I heard a whiny little voice complaining, "I; ain't had my Valium yet."

The medicine nurse proceeded to administer the drug, but I thought, "You; should be glad!" As I walked on, I received a vision from the Lord about the nature of drugs.
I saw a zoo with large, barred cages holding huge, violent beasts. There were signs over the cages identifying the beasts: DEPRESSION, EPILEPSY, DIABETES. The beasts were really pitching a fit, shaking the bars and rattling their cages. As I watched, a keeper in a white coat came out to feed them, and as he tossed them their food, they calmed down and quit their violent behavior. Then I saw what they were eating: drugs! The Beast of Depression was feeding on Valium, and while it had a temporary effect of quieting him, he was growing stronger and larger from his feeding. The Beast of Epilepsy was feeding on Dilantin and Phenobarbital - I know these drugs are dated, but that's what I saw! - and of course Diabetes was eating Insulin.

I saw the whole concept of drug therapy from a different standpoint. Even with a temporary relief from symptoms, it is unwise to use drugs - something God has forbidden - to fight an enemy God says is already defeated - illness - when the end result might be that the enemy grows stronger. (One comment on the vision: the fellow in the white coat, who I thought at first was a zoo-keeper, turned out to be a doctor on closer inspection. Of course!)

Another word I had from God concerning drugs also occurred in a hospital and also concerned Valium. I became a nurse in the old days; I was "capped;" in 1951, and in those days, nurses took "The; Florence Nightingale Pledge".; Today they have something a little more modern, but in my day it was quite a ceremony, done by candlelight, all very moving. I didn't know then not to swear, and I took the pledge in good faith. It begins "I; swear before Almighty God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully." One further passage is, "I; will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and I will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug."

One night over thirty years later in the Emergency Room of a local hospital, I prepared a syringe of intravenous Valium for a patient, and as I started to inject it I heard the Lord saying, "You; promised me you wouldn't do that."

It all came back: the ceremony, the pledge and its restrictions on giving drugs. After all the years, all the drugs I'd given - and taken - God was holding me to my word. I had another nurse give the drug - admittedly a compromise solution - and this particular Rhema was one of the many reasons I finally quit the profession of nursing and gave up my registration.

Now I fully understand nobody but me heard that word, (I wonder so often why God says so much to me about this system and apparently so little to other people) but I did hear it, and I had to obey. It seems incredible to me that Christians can believe God uses drugs; with all the scriptural prohibitions and its close companionship with other forbidden things like witchcraft, I see no defense for the position that this is something God chooses to use.

And the real problem is...

I heard a sermon recently in which the speaker focused on a particular evil in his city - the manufacture, sale and use of drugs. He had an excellent summary of why drugs are so dangerous: they have more than a physical effect, he explained. They also have the power to exert some level of dominance over the soul and spirit. The taking of drugs will open doorways into the spirit realm and they can become a Second Master over whatever area of our being we want them to affect. It's not merely physical, this incredible bondage from the use of drugs. As a matter of fact, the use of drugs can counterfeit the ministry of the Holy Spirit, to give comfort, insight, peace, power, wisdom.

So I was in agreement, not resisting the man's message, which was basically, "Those; people out there in the world need to quit taking drugs!" Nor was I looking for something to disagree with; but as I listened to him speaking about the danger and sin of drugs in the world, it occurred to me that the bigger, more urgent and more destructive condition is not unlawful drugs in the world. It's legal drugs in the Church. When the Church can quit depending on pharmaceuticals - which are just as much the Spirit of Sorcery as street drugs - then maybe we can minister to drug pushers and addicts in the world.

To me, the registered pharmacist at the corner drug store is every bit as unscriptural, as contrary to the cause of Christ as is the more felonious drug pusher. The pharmacist isn't a criminal, but he is a sorcerer. They're both sorcerers. It's just that one is called acceptable by man, the other is not. The Church says it's okay to take drugs if a doctor has prescribed them; but does that reflect what God says? Actually, this position is insupportable scripturally.

Children on drugs

Our society's bondage to drugs is enormous.
One of my daughters attended the University of South Florida and her under-graduate degree is in Elementary Education. She was told in one class that as many as 40% of elementary school children are on drugs; on legal, prescribed, "medication;" drugs.

Add to this the fact that an overwhelming majority of children born in the United States are born under the influence of drugs, is there any wonder so many Americans take and use drugs? And I don't mean just "Crack;" babies and those born to addicted mothers. Almost all mothers are drugged during labor. The drug culture begins in utero, as the mother - under "sedation;" - labors to bring forth the baby.

If the parents see drugs as a legitimate option, an acceptable answer to their problems - physical or psychological - then it is only logical that their teenage children should also consider drugs a suitable choice, and experiment with marijuana and other drugs. As Bill Gothard says: "what; the parents accept in moderation, their children will excuse in excess." It's a matter of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

Drugs: A doorway to the spirit

One effect of drugs which many people don't know is its influence in the spirit realm. The taking of drugs is a spiritual activity; drugs touch and control our spirits. Here is one clear example of how this works, shown through the experience of a friend of mine. This girl is the daughter of two pentecostal preachers; she has been saved since early childhood. The habit of prayer is deeply ingrained in her; she prays constantly, without ceasing, instinctively. She had her first child in a hospital and she was given a routine injection of Demerol while in labor. She told me that from the time she received that drug, she ceased to pray. It simply didn't occur to her to pray. It was as though the customs and habit patterns of twenty years had been wiped out by the drug. This experience really upset her, so although she'd had a fairly good birthing experience, she chose to have her second baby at home. She wanted her prayer life unaffected.

You have to search a very long time in America to find anyone who is truly drug free. I am continually astonished at people who are into the healthy body scene, careful of diet and exercise, who avoid caffeine and fried foods and wouldn't dream of eating white sugar - but they fill this same body they're so concerned about, this temple of the Holy Spirit, with any drug the doctor orders. And feel it's perfectly all right!

We have given doctors the right to declare a dispensation from the laws of God. Like the Pope, they can release us from obedience to what God - or the Church - has commanded.

Raising drug free children

It's increasingly important to raise at least a few drug-free Christian kids. The vast majority of them are born under the sway of drugs; their mothers are "medicated;" in labor. In infancy and childhood, our children are carted off to doctors at the first sign of ill health and they are treated for every disease (and every threat of disease) with drugs.

Since we can seldom defeat any enemy which we serve, if the Spirit of Sorcery is to be cast down in the end times there will have to be some virgins, some remnant of the Church which is untouched and undefiled by the influence of drugs. We'll need some who won't look on this enemy, this force which has been revealed in Scripture as God's enemy, as an acceptable, even a good thing.

The future our children will face

Maybe it doesn't seem horribly dangerous now. Maybe it's easy for people to consider drug therapy an appropriate solution for physical and social problems now. But it's not a static situation. It's growing worse. More people, and more different kinds of people, are taking more drugs; that's part of it. But the really scary part is, the drugs themselves are changing. They're getting worse. The drugs being developed now aren't soft, comforting, dreamy mood elevators, or zippy, enthusiastic, "let;'s party!" intoxicants. The drugs of the future will include performance enhancers; drugs which are designed not to help us escape from reality - like today's drugs - but instead are designed to change our abilities. Today's Anabolic Steroids, Crack cocaine, Amphetamines and such (which aren't used primarily to increase pleasure, but to expand the limits of human potential) will be improved and strengthened and others will be added.

In addition, these new drugs won't be simple vegetable extracts which can imitate human biochemistry; they may well be pure bio-chemicals which can be produced cheaply in a laboratory, thousands of times stronger and more specific than today's version.

So our children may face a generation which has the wherewithal to boost IQ, to enhance physical strength and endurance, to augment memory and the physical senses, to control physiology, and to expand emotion. And these chemically-enhanced supermen won't be either won to the kingdom of God, or overcome in their own kingdom, by Christians who are tainted and double-minded about the Spirit of Sorcery. As my sister put it, very neatly: "I; don't think you can be used to raise the dead if you've just taken aspirin for a headache."

We have to be pure, untouched, not partaking of their sins. We have to be undefiled virgins, like the 144,000 in Revelation 14.

Satans weapon's: Rebellion and witchcraft

I heard a great teaching lately about "The; Devil's Plan for Your Children", and it spoke of the two-pronged lie Satan is promulgating through a dozen different channels which touch our children, including schools, TV shows, movies, books, modern toys, cartoons, music and even Sunday School programs.

These two lies are: first that there is supernatural power, but it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. It's magical, occultic, and has no relationship with the traditions of the Church, no requirements for holiness. And it's available to all, even children, to use for their own purposes if they only learn how.

And secondly, the Devil lies to children by saying that they are smarter than their parents, that they have greater wisdom and knowledge, and certainly the child's rights - his demands and desires - are far more valid than those of the adults in his life. The idea of submission to authority is disparaged and what is paramount is "the; rights of the people" (which is what the word LAODACIA - one of the churches in Revelation 3 - means.)

At the root of those two lies are two of Satan's most frequently used tools - witchcraft and rebellion. He subtly encourages our children to USE unlawful power and control through the supernatural (which is witchcraft), and at the same time he urges them to refuse the lawful control which God has put over them (which is rebellion).

An interesting comment is: in American hospitals, babies are born under the influence of drugs, and because the father has signed away his authority, these children are born under the doctor's and the hospital's authority. These children are already in the sway of drugs (witchcraft) and not under the God-given authority of the father and mother.

And the Lord says: "Woe; unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).

So that's what's being molded and prepared to fill the world in the next twenty or thirty years: a generation of rebellious, undisciplined, lawless psychics, who will operate in drug-enhanced occultic power. We who are responsible for bringing up the next generation of Christians had better be aware of what they'll be facing, and we'd better be preparing them for the warfare with something a little more scriptural than puppet shows and trips to the skating rink! An hour of fun in Sunday School, after a week of humanistic schooling, television fare and worldly music, can hardly swing the balance against a supernatural enemy. That requires knowing and serving a supernatural God

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