because it had been made bitter.
Revelation 8:11 (ESV) ✝
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
Revelation 9:1 (NIV) ✝
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
Revelation 9:2-3 (NIV) ✝
They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
Revelation 9:11 (NIV) ✝
The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
Revelation 9:12 (NIV) ✝
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities
with Spirit-taught words.
1 Corinthians 2:13 (NIV) ✝
And the demons kept begging Jesus
not to order them to go into the Abyss.
Luke 8:31 (BSB) ✝