“He cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High I beseech thee, torment me not.

(For he had commanded the evil spirit to come out of him).

And Jesus asked him saying; "What is thy name? And he said, Legion, for many demons were entered into him.”

And they besought Him that He would not command them to go out into the deep.” Luke 8:28-31

The NIV translates the last phrase thus;

“And they begged Him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss (Gk: abussos).”

The word deep in the KJV is “abussos” from which we derive the word abyss. The evil spirit and the demons that were indwelling in this man repeatedly begged Jesus not to order them into this Abyss. So apparently spirits can be ordered into this place. This is borne out in Jude 6 and 1 and 2 Peter where it talks of spirits being in prison.

“By which also He (Jesus) went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disobedient…in the days of Noah.” 1 Peter 3:19

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartarus), and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement.” 2 Peter 2:4

There is a lot of pertinent information in these verses and we get another few titbits in Jude 6.

“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.”

When we parse and analyse these verses together we find that disobedient spirits or angels, which sinned in the days of Noah, after having left their first estate, have been incarcerated in this prison of gloomy dungeons which is also called Tartarus. This place is the same Abyss that the demons begged Jesus not to send them to.

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