Gary Eagle (27 Aug 2010)
"Revelation 18:23 being fulfilled"

 
I picked up this interesting little tidbit of information on a radio show called Phil's gang. Of the fortune 500 companies ten are big pharmaceutical companies, those ten companies make more profit than all the other four hundred ninety companies combined. Phil tells you what Wall street does not want you to know.
Therefore this fulfills Revelation 18:23 and the light of the candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
This word sorceries comes from the Greek word pharmakia from which we get the word pharmacy or drugs. Also note that Rev. 9:21 uses the term sorceries, however it is also associated with murder, fornication/prostitution, and theft. All of which today are associated by the police to the illegal drug trade. Pimps keep their prostitutes hooked on drugs to keep them hooking. Drug users commit theft to buy more drugs and some times when a drug deal goes bad someone is murdered. So we see that Rev. 9:21 is quite obviously predicts our illegal drug problem, whereas Rev. 18:23 on the other hand is connected to our use of prescription drugs, since there is no connection to murder, theft, and fornication. Also note that Rev. 18:23 is connected to the great men of the earth/merchants or what we would call today big pharmaceutical companies. Remember prescriptive drugs killed Elvis, and got Rush Limbaugh into a lot of trouble.

Revelation 18:23 being fulfilled
"Tampa is hub for 'pill mills'"
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/15/150022/na-tampa-is-hub-for-pill-mills/