Bible Questions Answered:
“What do we know about the bottomless
pit?...”
Hernandez/ Rio de Janeriro, Brazil
(South America)
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The Bottomless Pit:
Revelation 20:1-3 KJV (Second
Coming of Christ, Satan bound 1,000 years.)
1 And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless* pit* and a great
chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive
the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and
after that he must be loosed a little season.
* Bottomless-Greek: Abussos
(Ab-us-sos): Depthless, i.e. (infernal) “abyss”: -deep,
(bottomless) pit.
*Pit-Greek: Phrear (Fre-ar): A
hole, an abyss (as a prison) pit.
Revelation 9:1-11 KJV
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I
saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the
key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless
pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a
great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the
smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke
locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God
in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they
should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months:
and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh
a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek
death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death
shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were
like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it
were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of
women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it
were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the
sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto
scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was
to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king
over them, which is the angel of the bottomless
pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Abaddon: Hebrew-Destruction,
i.e. destroyer. The king and angel (or messenger) of the abyss.
Apollyon: Greek-Destruction,
destroyer.
Other references:
Revelation 11:7 KJV (The two
witnesses.)
And when they shall have finished
their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless
pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and
kill them.
Revelation 17:8 KJV
The beast that thou sawest was, and
is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go
into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose
names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the
world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
The abyss, the lowest part of hell,
innermost prison.
Matthew 25:41 KJV
Then shall He say also unto them on
the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels:
Though satan will
be cast into the bottomless pit, it does not sound as though he will
be alone, for countless hoards of locusts, demonic spirits will be
there with him as well (Revelation 9:3 KJV).
Satan is called
Baal-zebub: Baal (lord) of the fly. (II Kings 1:2, 3, 16).
II Peter 2:4 KJV
For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down to hell*, and delivered them
into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
*Hell-Greek:
Tartaroo/ Tartaros (Tar-taro-o): The deepest abyss of Hades.: to
incarcerate in eternal torment: cast down to hell.
Jude 6,13 KJV
6 And the angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness* unto the judgment of the
great day.
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness* for ever.
*Darkness-Greek:
Zophos (Dzof-os): Gloom (as shrouding like a cloud), blackness,
darkness, mist.
*Darkness-Greek:
Skotos (Skot-os): Obscurity, darkness.
Is there a place even worse
than hell and the bottomless pit?
Revelation 20:14
KJV
And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Dear friend, it is
not God's intention, that you die and go to a devil's hell!
Acts 2:21 KJV
And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall be saved.
John 3:14-18 KJV
14 And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son Of Man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that
He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be
saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
