13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
what is the ABYSS?
what is the abyss?
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the abyss is the bottomless pit
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abyss, deep, bottomless, unfathomable, boundless
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into the abyss the holy angel threw the unholy angel as written in the Holy Scriptures
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The abyss is a bottom-less pit out in eternity where the lord puts sinners just before he puts them into the lake of fire and brimstone
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Revelation 9:1-3
1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.
2And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up 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 out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Title: The Holy Bible, American Standard Version
Edition: First
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Revelation 20:1-3
1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
2And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.
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Revelation 20: 6-15
6. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years.
7 When the thousand years end, Satan will be let out of his prison. 8 He will go out to deceive the nations from every corner of the earth, which are called Gog and Magog. He will gather them together for battle—a mighty host, as numberless as sand along the shore.
9 And I saw them as they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded God’s people and the beloved city. But fire from heaven came down on the attacking armies and consumed them.
10 Then the Devil, who betrayed them, was thrown into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur, joining the beast and the false prophet. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and I saw the one who was sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide.
12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to what they had done.
13 The sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead in them. They were all judged according to their deeds.
14 And death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
15 And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.) 1996.
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God Almighty shows us that He is in charge of both good and evil as He takes His finite rebellious angel creature and locks him up, takes him out of commission for a thousand years. The Devil is placed in a bottomless pit by God Almighty through his servant angel. The gospel age is considered the figuratively spoken of time period of one thousand years in which the Devil is confined to the bottomless pit.
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The first resurrection is either the initial conversion that each elect believer receives or the resurrection bodily of the dead elect believers at the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Considering either position we the elect believers, Christians will exist triumphant with Jesus Christ God incarnate our Redeemer.
The elect believers, true Christians from all ages will not go into eternal death, Hell or the Abyss, or the Lake Of Fire and Brimstone, because they are sealed with the very person of God Almighty in deed the indwelling Holy Spirit Himself forever.
The unredeemed have received justice with the lord‘s decision to pass over them, by allowing them to serve their justified sentence in everlasting death, perishing throughout eternity in the lake of fire and brimstone.
Christians are the redeemed elect of God that have been saved through the finished work of Jesus Christ our Lord. We have received the everlasting seal of God Almighty indeed, The seal of the person of the infinite Holy Spirit of God will dwell within our individual finite lives forever.
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Abyss, The
a-bis´,hea bussos): In classical Greek the word is always an adjective, and is used (1) literally, “very deep,” “bottomless”; (2) figuratively, “unfathomable,” “boundless.” “Abyss” does not occur in the King James Version but the Revised Version (British and American) so transliterates, a bussos in each case. The King James Version renders the Greek by “the deep” in two passages (Lk 8:31; Rom 10:7). In Revelation the King James Version renders by “the bottomless pit” (Rev 9:1, 2, 11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1, 3). In the Septuagint abussos is the rendering of the Hebrew word, tehom. According to primitive Semitic cosmogony the earth was supposed to rest on a vast body of water which was the source of all springs of water and rivers (Gen 1:2; Dt 8:7; Ps 24:2; 136:6). This subterranean ocean is sometimes described as “the water under the earth” (Ex 20:4; Dt 5:8). According to Job 41:32 tehom is the home of the leviathan in which he plows his hoary path of foam. The Septuagint never uses abussos as a rendering of, sheol (= Sheol = Hades) and probably tehom never meant the “abode of the dead” which was the ordinary meaning of Sheol. In Ps 71:20 tehom is used figuratively, and denotes “many and sore troubles” through which the psalmist has passed (compare Jon 2:5).
But in the New Testament the word abussos means the “abode of demons.” In Lk 8:31 the King James Version renders “into the deep” (Weymouth and The Twentieth