The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.

He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.

When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth – all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world – will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come.