And when he opens the bottomless pit, “there arose a smoke out of the pit, as of a smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened, by reason of the smoke of the pit.” We will see that upon the opening of the bottomless pit, the inhabitants that have been incarcerated there are released into the earth once more. Now here’s a thought. Back several hundreds years ago a volcano blew. It may have been Krakatau in Indonesia. The smoke that arose from it was so dense that it blotted out the sun from the earth for several days.

If we are to take these first verses in Revelation 9 literally, and I see no reason at this point to take them otherwise, then it may be that this is a similar eruption as Krakatau, and “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth; and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” Rev 9:3

that the earth will be plunged into darkness by the smoke from the Abyss. As we shall see, the spirits, or angels, who are locked up in Tartarus are now released. So it may be safe to assume that their emergence from the gloomy dungeons onto earth is preceded by the earth being plunged into darkness by reason of the black smoke of the Abyss.

Whereas many students of this book believe these locusts and scorpions are literal, I believe that these are figurative. For we have already seen that Jesus went and preached to the spirits that are held in this prison. We have concluded that these spirits are angelic beings who are men. We have noted that Satan is also called the serpent and the dragon and these names are figures of speech and thus the beast from the Abyss is also figurative. In the same way, the terms “locusts” is a figure of speech relating to angelic beings who are to come out of the Abyss.

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