<em>Editor’s Note: The Bible portrays a picture of a rebellious last days people that would not repent of their sins, including the sin of sorcery. Pharmakeia is the Greek word translated “sorceries, sorcery, or magic spells” which in today’s society all involve the use of illegal mind-altering drugs. As the use of these drugs increase, the abject evil associated with them increases as well. Just as the signs of the times in Matthew 24 are increasing in frequency and intensity, so is the outflow of effects from a 21st century drug-crazed society. "The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts," (Revelation 9:20-21).</em>
<blockquote>“Each new report of some horrendous act makes us want to close our eyes and wish it would all just go away…and someday soon, it will.”
<p style="text-align: right;">-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”</p>
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Miami police are dealing with another violent incident related to bath salts as a death related to the synthetic drug is reported in New York.

Police say surveillance video shows Shane Schyler undressing in the middle of a children’s park and threatening a three year old girl. The girl’s mother rushed the child out of the area as people called 911. When confronted by police, the man was sitting in a fountain claiming he was trying to cool off.

The park is located in the back yard of the North Miami Beach Police Department. A search of the man found bath salts similar to the ones used by the attacker in a cannibalism incident two weeks ago.

Bath salts were also suspected in an incident in Madison County, New York that left a woman dead.

Pamela McCarthy, 35, assaulted her three-year-old child and then police officers who arrived on the scene. Officers first used pepper spray on McCarthy who was completely unaffected by the chemical. Police then used a taser to bring McCarthy to the ground so she could be restrained. She went into cardiac arrest after being taken into custody and died at a local hospital.

Police have issued warnings about the very dangerous bath salts and that their use is spreading.