The Great Tribulation: Battleground Earth

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

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I just believe what John wrote.

Rev. 9:1-3

1And 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. 2And 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. 3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

The bottomless pit or "abyss" appears to be somewhere in the earth. Agreed?


Well first off I simply take it by faith. Jesus our Creator knows a lot more about his earth than men do right? Who are we to say there is not a literal place in the earth where some kind of beings who have a king over them are?

Rev. 9:11

11And 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.

Thats how it works! I read what John wrote and believe it. Why would I not believe it? Can I explain it?

Perhaps not but neither can I explain how there is a place up in the sky called Heaven. I cant look up and see a cosmic city with a throne and God and angels.

Why do I then believe in it?

Because it is written.

Maybe....just maybe it may have something to do with the "hollow earth" theory? Perhaps theres some truth to it.

Just a speculation on my part of course.

Mike, to believe is to trust. I don't speculate that a 30 foot high scaffold is put up properly. I make sure it is, before I let others climb it. John is speaking to a Diaspora Judean world located in Asia Minor who understood their own religion, the pagan religions around them, and how the Judeans in Jerusalem absorbed it all, to become first century Jewish myth (book of Enoch) Brother Esaias wrote a lot of good stuff on that subject. You should of read it. But the bottomless pit, the abyss, as described in Homer's Iliad, was lower than the abode of Hades, as the heavens were as far from the earth. Bottomless refers to eternal, never ending, it is totally symbolic, and poetic. Just as the Roman patricians, and Diaspora Judeans understood.