The Fifth
Trumpet Judgment
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Chapter Eleven
- Verse Eleven
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.
(Revelation
9:11)
The bottomless pit
is occupied by Satan and his fallen angels.
The Book of Jude and II Peter make reference to this:
Jude verse 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.
2 Peter 2:4 - 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;
Since Satan and his
host were in effect destroyed at the cross, we can assume with scriptural
backing, that they have been held in one place only since that time. The bottomless pit may well have other names
assigned to it throughout scripture. This
is where Satan and his fallen angels appear to have been held since the cross,
and this is where they’ll stay until God releases them for a short period of
time at the end of the age to deceive the nations of the earth, Revelation
20:7;17:8; 13:3; 11:7. Revelation 11:7
tells us that Satan is in this bottomless pit until the true Church (God’s two
witnesses) has finished its testimony.
Revelation 11:7 -
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.
It is at that
particular time that Satan and his fallen messengers (angels/demons) will
ascend out of this pit to once more wage an all out spiritual battle upon
mankind.
Satan will be
loosed when the true Church, as a whole, has finished their testimony,
represented by the two witnesses; the two olive trees and the two
candlesticks of Revelation chapter eleven.
Can anyone be saved after the Church has finished their testimony and
Satan has once more been released? This
seems to be the big question that is being asked. Perhaps God has chosen not to make this
absolutely clear in scripture? Perhaps
there will still be a scattered few being saved during this time? Or again, maybe no one can be saved after
this time. Dear reader - if you cannot
say that Christ is the center of your thoughts, then please take the advice of Isaiah
55:6 “SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUIND, CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS
NEAR.” History seems to have finally caught
up with the Book of Revelation. When God
opens our spiritual eyes to the truth of biblical interpretation, one cannot
deny that we are living on the threshold of the end, or perhaps in the midst of
those days of great tribulation.
THE ANGEL
OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
The word angel
can be translated messenger as well.
When Revelation 9:11 states that “they” had a king over them; the “they”
that is spoken of are the locusts that come up out of the bottomless pit. These locusts are spirit beings; the demons
or fallen angels that fell into transgression long ago with Lucifer. Contrary to what many churches are teaching, one
cannot physically see them as they come up from the bottomless pit. Whether one would say their fall was at the
cross or before, their outcome is nonetheless the same. They were cast into the bottomless pit where
they would stay until being released for this particular end-time event, which
must and will come to pass. It is the
influence of these spiritual beings, these locusts that swindle and deceive the
fallen global church during this time.
These locusts are fallen angels - demons if you will - that cheat and
defraud mankind of the true Gospel. At
the same time all false teachers of the Gospel are characterized by the
attributes of these locusts. In a sense
these locusts are not only fallen spiritual beings, but God attributes the word
“locusts” to people as well; ones who will spiritually eat up God’s
truth with their own damnable words and doctrines. They are unknowingly led and influenced by
these spiritual locusts.
Scripture informs
us that these locusts have an angel over them, which is the angel of the
bottomless pit. As we said earlier,
angel can be translated as messenger very easily in Scripture. The name of this king is Abaddon in the
Hebrew and Apollyon in the Greek. The Hebrew defines Abaddon as destroyer or destruction while the Greek defines
Apollyon also as destroyer
or destruction. Both are nearly identical in definition.
There is only one being that can qualify as the “king” of the demons or the
“king” of the abyss, and that is of course Satan himself.
SATAN:
KING AND ANGEL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
Satan is typified
by the king of Tyrus in Ezekiel chapter twenty-eight. This chapter gives more details of Satan’s
origins than any other chapter in the Bible.
Ezekiel 28: 12-17:
12 - Son of
man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty.
13 - Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the
sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 - Thou art
the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast
upon the holy
15 - Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity
was found in thee.
16 - By the
multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence,
and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of
the
17 - Thine
heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom
by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay
thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Satan at one time
was God’s anointed cherub! He was as
perfect as any created being of God could be.
He had free access into heaven itself, where he strolled at will, verse
fourteen tells us. Verse seventeen shows
us that his heart was lifted up because of his beauty, thus he was corrupted
because of his brightness. The Hebrew defines brightness as: a bright shining (as of a city). Recall in verse one of Revelation chapter
nine that we saw a star fall from heaven.
This star was said to be a “bright
shining,” (see “Satan: The Falling Star” in chapter one of this study.)
Satan’s age-old
plan has not changed, even though he knows that he has but a short time left,
Revelation 12:12. His plan from ages
past is to “…ascend above the heights of the clouds; I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH,” Isaiah 14:14. To be like the most High is to be a duplicate
or a counterpart to Christ. That is a
false Christ, an antichrist.
Satan’s goal has not changed from the time his desire was established to
be like the Most High. He deceived our
first parents in the Garden of Eden, and has been spiritually killing off most
of humanity ever since. Daniel 11:45
gives us a description of Satan’s final demise:
Daniel 11:45 - And he shall plant the tabernacles
of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come
to his end, and none shall help him.
Why is it that
Satan comes to his end without any help here in Daniel 11:45? The haughtiness, pride, and arrogance
displayed by Satan confirms what Isaiah fourteen taught, that he would ascend
above the heights of the clouds, to become like God himself. Now, at the end of time, we see him planting
the tabernacles of his palace (i.e., his spiritual kingdom) between the seas in
the glorious mountain. He has planted
his kingdom within spiritual
At the Abomination
of Desolation history will have revealed the “man of sin” in fulfillment of II Thessalonians 2:3-4:
Verse 3 - “Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of
perdition.”
Verse 4 - “Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is God [cf., “…I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit ALSO upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north, Isaiah 14:13.”] or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
Christ gives us
much warning in the Gospels concerning this same end-time event. We are being repetitious here in the
following passages but it is of such grave importance that it bears repeating.
Matthew 24:15-16 -
15 - When ye
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 - Then let
them which be in
Mark 13:14 -
14 - ¶But when
ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them
that be in
Luke 21:20-21 -
20 - ¶And when
ye shall see
21 - Then let
them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the
midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter
thereinto.
The Book of Daniel
has much to say concerning this event as well:
Daniel 11:31 -
31 - And arms
shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and
shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination
that maketh desolate.
Daniel 12:11-12 -
11 - And from
the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination
that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and
ninety days.
12 - Blessed
is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and
thirty days.
In all probability
the Abomination of Desolation has either taken place or is very close at
hand. One only needs to take a close
look at the church today; its inner workings and strange doctrines being
proclaimed along with its false signs and wonders being orchestrated. More than this, today’s church is being
slandered as never before. The
20 - ¶And when
ye shall see
And when these things begin
to come to pass,
then look up, and lift up
your heads;
for your redemption draweth
nigh,
(Luke 12:28)
END OF STUDY