30Jesus asked him, saying, “What is your name?”
And he said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him. 31And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.
Is the Abyss inside Jesus Christ, that would be the one place they could do no harm and he is fire is that what the lake of fire is will they spend eternity inside God being tormented. We know Jesus is the Fathers bosom.
The Abyss is the underworld, a lower part of Hades where demons are imprisoned. We are in Christ and the Abyss is not. All that is pure and perfect is in Christ.
Sheol (Hades) is not Hell. Hell is the Lake of Fire. "Death and Hades are both cast into the Lake of Fire and destroyed so they cannot be the same place. The Abyss is also called the Bottomless Pit.
Sheol comes from the word
shaol, which means, to ask, demand or require. So Hades is asking, demanding and requiring souls. Satan is behind this drawing power that tempts the unsaved soul to come to Daddy. Souls can store up sin and wrath which pulls them towards their possible destiny. Fortunately, God has a drawing power of Love and Grace to pull His chosen to safety. Hades also means hidden and unseen.
Job 10:21, 21 describes it as the land of darkness.
Job 25:5, 6 says departed spirits tremble under the waters. (of the earth).
Abaddon, the destroyer, is an angel of the Abyss whom is released in the Apocalypse (Rev. 9:11). So we can see that Abaddon is not in a burial grave, he is in a different territory in the lower realm of Hades, separate from where ungodly souls are.
Deut. 32:22 describes fire to the lowest part of Sheol that consumes the earth and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
This is a physical place beneath the mountains (volcanos), deep in the earth. Actually if you were to go to the center of the earth, and there was a huge cavern, it would be bottomless, just ceiling all around depending on your gravitional position. Godzilla and King Kong know where this place is - lol.
2 Pet. 2:4 says God imprisoned angels to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment.
"Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given him. He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a Great furnace; and the sun and air were darkened by the smoke of the pit." Rev. 9:1, 2
This event will be like a massive super-volcanic eruption -which could create a huge lava lake of fire. One area that is prone to this kind of eruption would be Yellowstone National Park. Another is The Great Rift Valley, which is a series of connecting faults that stretch more than 3700 miles from northern Syria, through Lebanon, the Jordan River Valley through the Sea of Galilee, then down through the Dead Sea, to the Red Sea and through Africa to Mozambique.
This Great Rift Valley contains thirty volcanoes, some active and some dormant. Evidence of cone-shaped craters and/or volcanic lava sheets exist all throughout the wilderness outside of Jerusalem. Sodom and Gomorrah was on the east side of the Dead Sea.
During Christ's time, the Dead Sea was even called the Lake of Fire and Smoke. Other names for it were the Sea of Sodom, the Sea of Lot, the Devil's Sea. A reservoir of Fire and brimstone exists beneath the surface of this area.
This area is where Jesus cast the herd of demon possessed pigs over the cliff. Satan tempted Jesus near Mt. Quarantal..The High Priests sent out the scapegoat which was symbolically laden with the sins of Israel into this wilderness area.
Somewhere along this passage is the entrance into the Abyss that will be opened during the Great Tribulation.
