Revelation 9:2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. (ESV) In some translations the term “shaft of the bottomless pit” is simply bottomless pit or abyss. There is a distinction made in these verses that possibly the shaft is a smaller or more narrow way to/out of the abyss. Now whether or not there is another more accessible way to the pit is not made clear but what is made clear is that every other time the bottomless pit is mentioned outside of Revelation 9, it refers to it without the “shaft”. When the beast comes out and Satan is thrown in there is not a shaft mentioned which might lead us to believe that this shaft is somewhat small and contained. Out of this opening came smoke, thick and black enough to darken the sky and sun. At this point if you remember the sun already has a third less light and shines for only two thirds of the day anyway so to have smoke come up and darken the earth further would be dreary at best and absolutely hopeless at worst. As dreary or hopeless as the smoke may seem, once we take a closer look at the smoke we will see something even more dreadful and terrifying #RevelationofJesusChrist
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:01 +0000