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all right let's get back into this
really interesting story about the
deliverance of the madman or the madmen
of the garrisons of the gadarenes
depending on which gospel writer that
you're reading and we focused in our
last segment in Luke chapter 8 and verse
number 31 when this demon says mine my
name is legion for we are many which
implies that this man could have been
possessed by as many or inhabited by as
many as five thousand demons we read in
Luke 831 they were imploring him did
they're reduced to beggars they're
imploring him not to command them to go
away into the abyss the abyss so why
would they implore him not to send them
into the abyss obviously they don't want
to go there because they know it's not
as good as what they've got right now
they prefer as they will request shortly
to go into pigs we'd rather go live in
pigs then go to the abyss and apparently
they'd rather live in a person than pigs
that's what that's where they were
living at the time isn't that
interesting why did he must want to live
in people I don't know you know I don't
have any clue on that why would these
guys want to go into the pigs you know
one to say just set us free will float
around you know in the clouds or
something no they want to have
expression in the material physical
world apparently and they have to
inhabit a physical body in order to do
that now here's the question that I
posed last time what is the abyss
well the abyss is synonymous with what
scripture also refers to as the
bottomless pit okay sounds like a
horrible place if you asked me we can
find mention of it in the book of
Revelation in several places take a look
at your Bible in Revelation chapter 9
and verse number one then the fifth this
is doing the trumpet judgments which are
yet to occur then the fifth angel
sounded and I saw a star from heaven
which had fallen to the earth and the
key to the bottomless pit was given to
him and if we look in the Greek as to
what that word bottomless of words
bottomless pit is in the Greek it's the
word a brew sauce a boo sauce from that
word we get our modern English word
abyss and that word of boo sauce in the
new American Standard is also translated
in the book of Revelation not just as
bottomless pit but also as abyss and so
anytime you see bottomless pit and time
we see abyss that's the same thing and
in verse number 2 of Revelation 9 and he
opened the bottomless pit this star that
fell from heaven and had the key opened
the bottomless pit and smoke went up out
of the pit like the smoke of a great
furnace and the Sun and the air were
darkened by the smoke of the pit and so
this star which falls from heaven is
referred to as a he or ahem in verse
number 2 so this is a some kind of a
being it seems it's an angel he's given
the key you know he comes from heaven ok
and he's a star when he opens the basket
out pours all this black smoke that
darkens the Sun and as you keep on
reading through the Revelation chapter 9
you see that this smoke what it really
is when you get up close is all of these
wicked evil demonic spirits pouring out
of the abyss the bottomless pit verse
number three then out of the smoke came
locusts upon the earth and power was
given them as the Scorpions on the earth
have power and they were told not to
hurt the grass of the earth nor any
green thing or any tree but only the men
who do not have the seal of God on their
foreheads and I I don't know if we
should take the time to read all of
these it's so interesting all these
verses they were not permitted to kill
anyone but to torment them for five
months and their torment was like the
torment of a scorpion when it stings a
man and in those days men will seek
death and they will not find it they
will long to die and
death flees from them why because of
these stinging demonic scorpions that
are released from the abyss the
bottomless pit okay and there's more
description of them in in Revelation
chapter 9 they are weird looking little
dudes and again they are spiritual
beings we read in Revelation chapter 11
and verse number 7 speaking of the two
witnesses which we know about from
Revelation when they finish their
testimony the Beast that comes up out of
the abyss will make war with them and
overcome them and kill them so the Beast
of Revelation is released from that
abyss the bottomless pit okay and then
we read in Revelation 20 and verses
verse number one then I saw an angel
coming down from heaven holding the key
of the abyss and a great chain in his
hand
and he laid hold of the dragon the
serpent of old who is the devil and
Satan and bound him for a thousand years
and he threw him into the abyss and shut
it and sealed over him so that he could
not would not deceive the nation's any
longer
okay so there's a little insight into
this abyss that's the inside okay it's a
prison and right now apparently for evil
wicked spirits not all evil wicked
spirits are there but some of them are
because you know that's what revelation
tells us these demons that were
inhabiting this man begged Jesus that
they wouldn't be cast there so they knew
that you know that would be a rightful
place for them the Beast that wicked
person that we read about in Revelation
comes out of the abyss at the time that
God determines because of his release
okay all under the sovereign control of
God and one angel grabs the devil in the
future and puts him in the abyss he's
got the key he locks him there for a
thousand years into the abyss okay now I
realize goodness gracious
that raises probably more questions
it answers but it does open our minds to
this spiritual realm and we want to talk
about that you know as we progress here
but it gives us some insight at least a
little bit in Luke 831 as to why these
demons begged not to go into the abyss
and we read in verse number 32 that the
demons implored Jesus to permit them to
enter the swine and he gave them
permission okay
lots more saying about that too but I'll
see you next time
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