Where the most hard-core are held

Continuation of November 24 post:

II Peter 2:4: [4] For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

"These were fallen angels who stepped out of bounds and that tells us some things about angels. It tells us some things about free will. Angels have free will, but I'm not sure about their thinking processes and so forth . . .

"We do know there is also something in hell called Tartarus, reserved for these specific angels and the 'chains of darkness' is the chain that holds them accountable. Where? We don't really know. We know that there are 'pits,' meaning there's different parts and realms, but where Tartarus is we can make some guesses, but we can't say with certainty where it is, but we do know it's in hell.

"The point I'm ultimately going to make here is 'the bottomless pit' appears to be a part of the lowest hell where the most hard-core are held.

Revelation 11:7: [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

"Listen, there's an angel whose name is Apollyon; they have identities. We know in Revelation 9, not only will these monstrosities be released . . .  and even then, the command is, you don't kill but you torment, and these creatures are more than willing to do just that because the type of torment that those individuals--the torment that they experience is likened to the very torment that these creatures are experiencing in that bottomless pit and you ask the question, 'Why is God doing it?'

"When the sixth trumpet is sounded there's going to be 200 million horsemen that are going to be released. Not from the bottomless pit, but from another location, and God says, 'Thirteen months.'

"So, first you have these locusts that are going to torment man, and then God's going to release these horsemen and they for 13 months--they're killing and tormenting and you ask, 'Why?' and what we're going to find out at the end of chapter 9 is man's heart still won't break and beg for repentance for forgiveness.

"They lash out at God and they will persist in their evil ways. What God's demonstrating is the depravity of man's heart. God puts on display in this whole course of tribulation, the 70th Week of Daniel, the utter depravity of man's sinful heart, and when they're experiencing some of these judgements, they don't cry out for a god to come down and intervene; they shake their first at Him. It's really appalling what's going on.

"In Revelation 7:11 ('And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition) we learn that there is the beast who comes out, so we've got Apollyon, there's going to be these locusts that are described, but the beast is also down there.

Revelation 17:8: [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.

"We see that this beast is going to have the capacity here--go over to Revelation 20: [1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

"We know that those at the upper echelons of the underworld are the ones contained in this realm, in this region. You've got Apollyon, you've got the beast. We're going to see that Satan himself is actually going to spend 1,000 years down here. After the 1,000 years, God's going to open it up again and everything's going to culminate with that great battle of Armageddon.

"In Luke 8, there's some fallen angels where there's this interesting incident: 

[26] And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
[27] And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
[28] When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
[29] (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
[30] And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

"They have to possess a body. These devils, they're disembodied, they lost something, and when you do see them active on the planet, why are there many of them possessing human beings? They have to indwell.

Verse 31: [31] And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

"You've got these devils who know who the Son of man is and they have this request: 'Don't cast us out.' And that word 'deep' is the word 'abyss.' It's the word where we get the bottomless pit. These devils are terrified of that place; they don't want to go there.

Verse 32: [32] And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

"There's swine in Jerusalem, interestingly enough. Swine, an unclean animal--what is the world are pigs doing there?! This really testifies to this spiritual depravity of Israel.

"You notice verse 33 says that herd ran down into a lake: [33] Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

"But did they not ask, 'Don't cast us out into the deep'? You see, the deep has nothing to do with that body of water in any way, shape or form. We know the deep is not a reference to the lake because where do they ultimately go? Into the lake. And if the Lord says He suffered them, they weren't cast into this abyss as it were.

"Look at the end of verse 28: [28] When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.

[29] (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

"That place 'the deep' is a place of torment and when those locusts, led by Apollyon, come out, what are they going to do for those that don't have the gospel? They're going to torment. These devils don't want to be tormented; they don't want to go to the deep. 

"What we find in Revelation is when those monstrosities are released, they're going to torment humanity, a portion of them, with a torment that those devils know all about. So, it's kind of scary stuff, isn't it? It should terrify."