Abaddon / Apollyon ~ who is he?

[Gabbylittleangel]

Rev 9:11 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.

The king ~ the angel of the bottomless pit.
Is his his name actually Abaddon, or Apollyon, or is it a nick-name or title?
Who is he? The devil? The anti-christ? A man? A demonic spirit?

What and where is the bottomless pit?

What are your thoughts?

 

[disruptor]

I put what I thought was the answer in the Freemasonry thread. Revelation gives it in both Hebrew and Greek to warn us of those amongst both Jews and Gentiles who worship Satan. In a prophetic sense I believe it refers to our ruling elite and its activities. The bottomless pit is the Hell they make for themselves though their crimes, warmongering and profiteering.

 

[Lenbenhear]

I put what I thought was the answer in the Freemasonry thread. Revelation gives it in both Hebrew and Greek to warn us of those amongst both Jews and Gentiles who worship Satan. In a prophetic sense I believe it refers to our ruling elite and its activities. The bottomless pit is the Hell they make for themselves though their crimes, warmongering and profiteering.

That is as good an answer as any. It is *a destroying spirit* of lust, greed, and corruption. - a good description of MANY who are places of political, religious, and corporate power !

THOSE IN CHRIST live in Love and humilty before GOD and before men.

But this also: "The righteous can be as bold as a lion." (!) ... but only for the honor OF CHRIST and GOD.

 

[ÃÂoppleganger]

A big Trouble Maker and Most Likely Not Human! Maybe a Fallen Angel B4 the Flood. It doesn't tell us. But he leads the 1st Great Woe, The period of 5 mo's. The Time that was reduced lest even the elect perish!

 

[ÃÂoppleganger]

Revelation 9:1-3
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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. 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. 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.

These were no ordinary locusts. They seem, from their description, to be a kind of Infernal Cherubim. The horse, the man, the lion, and the scorpion are combined as descriptions of the Locust. As opposed to the heavenly Cherubs: The Lion, Man, Eagle and Bull. Called locusts, but supernatural and, apparently, incapable of being killed by ordinary humans.

Revelation 9:4-6
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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. 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. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

"In those days" refers to the period of "five months" which had to be shortened to 5 months lest even perish. The Locust Season was 5 months from May to September.The result of this plague is not the producing of repentance; but only a desire for death. A similar state of things is foretold in Jer. viii. 3: "Death shall be chosenrather than life by all the residue that remains ..."

Revelation 9:7-10
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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. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 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. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they have over them a king, the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon(¹), and in the Greek his name is Apollyon(¹).

¹ Hebrew figure of speech by which an abstract object is substitued for a concrete one.
Called - Metonymy of the adjunct
Metonymy - When one name or noun is used instead of another, to which it stands in a certain relation.
Of the Adjunct - When something pertaining to the subject is put for the subject itself
(Gen 28:22; Job 32:7)

Earth-born locusts that have "no king" (Prov 30:27). It's beside the point to say there king is Satan. These are twice described as coming up "out of the bottomless pit" (Rev 9:7 and 17:8). The 2 names given in 2 different languages is evidently important.Their meaning, Destroyers from the place of Destruction. (Jer 4:7; 6:26. Isa 16:4 Dan 8:24,25; 9:26; 11:44) It is the literally name of the bottomless pit and its inhabitants, as distinguished from the Hebrew Sheol. (Job 26:6, 28:22; Ps 88:11; Prov 15:11, 27:20).

Abaddon "the angel of the abyss," Satan's rightjand Man from The Pit leads this great army, and forms part of a Satanic force brought against the King of kings and Lord of lords. All is clear and simple and plain if we read this as one of a series of literal judgments which is to take place in the "day of the Lord." As literal and real as were the plagues of Egypt Or David and The Slaying Angel.

Revelation 9:12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Taken in Part from Bullinger's Commentary on Revelation

 

[disruptor]

It certainly is not "irrelevant" to say Abaddon is Satan when Revelation clearly says:

Rev 20:3 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 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.

Rev 9:11 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 is Satan "loosed" from the pit. Abaddon is Satan in the very act of "deceiving the nations". The word "Angel" implies he is from the pit, and not in the pit (otherwise how could Satan (also an "angel") be cast back into the bottomless pit in 20:3?). The Commentary quoted overcomplicates the issue.

Job reminds us that Satan also appears as a worldly personality:

Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Incidentally the bottomless pit is going to have a slight power struggle issue if the King from the bottomless pit, Satan who will be cast back into the bottomless pit, and the Beast from the bottomless pit are all different. Rev 20:3 already states clearly that the dragon, the serpent, the Devil and Satan are the same. The Beast and the Destroyer are merely further synonyms for the same evil that is already amongst us. Revelation is not history. Revelation is about the here-and-now.

Rev 17:8 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.

Personal statements of our faith right here and now confirm the presence of our names in the Book of Life. And the bottomless pit is welcome to a large proportion of our business leaders, politicians, financiers, statesmen, and other such collaborators of Abaddon.