Strengthening The Remnant
We read in Revelation 17:6 that Babylon commits mass genocide against her people before the 7 year tribulation:
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Revelation 17:6 KJV
We also know that Revelation 18:4,23,24 tells us that one of the ways this genocide will be accomplished is through pharmaceuticals, which the Bible identifies as sorceries (Rev 18:23).
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye recieve not of her plagues…