And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and (A)I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given (B)the key to the shaft of (C)the bottomless pit.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 9:1 Greek the abyss; also verses 2, 11

10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and (A)a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on (B)the springs of water.

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He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft (A)rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and (B)the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

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“or ‘Who will descend into the (A)abyss?’” (that is, (B)to bring Christ up from the dead).

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18 and the living one. (A)I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and (B)I have the keys of Death and Hades.

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Godlessness in the Last Days

But understand this, that (A)in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be (B)lovers of self, (C)lovers of money, (D)proud, (E)arrogant, abusive, (F)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (G)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (H)not loving good, treacherous, reckless, (I)swollen with conceit, (J)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but (K)denying its power. (L)Avoid such people.

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The Thousand Years

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, (A)holding in his hand the key to (B)the bottomless pit[a] and a great chain.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 20:1 Greek the abyss; also verse 3

The beast that you saw (A)was, and is not, and (B)is about to rise from (C)the bottomless pit[a] and (D)go to destruction. And (E)the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in (F)the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because (G)it was and is not and is to come.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 17:8 Greek the abyss

11 They have (A)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is (B)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[a]

12 (C)The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from (D)the four horns of the golden altar before God,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 9:11 Abaddon means destruction; Apollyon means destroyer

31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into (A)the abyss.

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14 (A)The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

15 Then (B)the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and (C)there were loud voices in heaven, saying, (D)“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of (E)his Christ, and (F)he shall reign forever and ever.”

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12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of (A)the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.

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The Seven Trumpets

Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed (A)hail and (B)fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a (C)third of the earth was burned up, and a third of (D)the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like (E)a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea (F)became blood.

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Then I saw the seven angels (A)who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

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(A)Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, (B)unless the rebellion comes first, and (C)the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, (D)the son of destruction,[b] who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, (E)proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For (F)the mystery of lawlessness (G)is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then (H)the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus (I)will kill with (J)the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by (K)the appearance of his coming.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Some manuscripts sin
  2. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Greek the son of perdition (a Hebrew idiom)

10 and the devil (A)who had deceived them was (B)thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where (C)the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and (A)the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and (B)the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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18 And he said to them, (A)“I saw Satan (B)fall like lightning from heaven.

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12 “How (A)you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, (B)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!

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