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Abaddon or Apollyon
the Destroyer
Good angel or bad angel?
Revelation 9: 1: And the fifth angel sounded,
and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the
key of the bottomless pit.
The fifth angel is the fifth angel
of the seven that stood before the throne of Yahweh holding the trumpets from chapter eight. John then saw a star fall
from heaven unto the earth. This star was an angel just as the star in the
fourth seal was an angel. This angel has been given the key to the
bottomless pit. Yahushua is the possessor of this key, he holds the keys to
death, Hell and the grave and it would be ridiculous to believe that he
doesn’t possess this key as well. He has given this key to this angel and
he is in charge of the bottomless pit just as Joseph was keeper of the
prison gate in Egypt.
Most of the time when the
Bible speaks of something falling we picture it to mean falling from grace
or a higher estate with Yahweh, such as
backsliding or other such things. In this scripture this angel falling does
not mean that he is a fallen angel. It is just that John saw him fall from
heaven. This angel has come down from heaven the same as the angel in the
third trumpet that was called wormwood to bring Yahweh’s punishment upon men for their evil behavior.
We see this angel again when
he chains Satan and casts him into the bottomless pit (Rev. 20: 1).
He is called the destroyer because he is the destroyer of evil as a
servant of Yahweh. He is one of Yahweh’s angels of destruction.
Revelation 9:
11: And they had a king over
them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in
the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name A pollyon.
This describes the one who
has the authority to release or seal up these locusts, to open or shut the
door to the bottomless pit. He is called king over them, not because he leads them but
because he has complete authority over them.
Abaddon means perdition or destruction and the name Apollyon means destroyer and is defined as being the angel of
the bottomless pit. The one thing to bear in mind is that it is Yahweh that is responsible for this plague of darkness and
tormenting locusts. This is not the work of Satan but of the angel that Yahweh had sent to bring this destruction. Yahushua himself taught that Satan was not divided against
Satan. This he taught so that we would realize that the Devil is smart
enough not to divide his own house. Yahweh is not guilty of using the Devil as a hit man to battle against the
forces of evil. He has His own faithful angels who will do the job. This
wrath is poured out on the nations that worship the Anti-Christ. Satan
lives in side of the Anti-Christ and is being worshipped by these people
that have suffered this plague.
It is easier to understand when
we go back to Genesis the 6th chapter to
read that Yahweh himself is the destroyer of
evil if we become evil and are weighed in his balances.
Gen:6:7: And Yahweh said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of
the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Yahweh destroyed the earth with a flood, the Devil didn’t do
this Yahweh did. We do not see any
angels during this flood but it is probable that they played a certain role
in this destruction. But, we will see in Genesis how that angels do play a
role in the destruction of wickedness.
After Abraham had tried to convince
the angels of Yahweh not to destroy Sodom and
Gomorrah two of the angels proceeded to go to the cities to see for their
selves. After having seen the wickedness of these cities they went to Lot
and his family to try and rescue them for Abraham’s sake.
Genesis 19: 1: And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and
he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
12: And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law,
and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city,
bring them out of this place:
13: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of Yahweh; and Yahweh hath sent us
to destroy it.
14: And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy
this city. But he seemed as one
that mocked unto his sons in law.
The angels were prepared to
save all of Lot’s family for Abraham’s sake but not all would listen to
him. But, notice in verse 13 the angels said that they were going to
destroy the cities. The Devil did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, the
angels of Yahweh did. Satan did play a role
by convincing the people of Sodom and Gomorrah to become so sinful that Yahweh could not
allow it to continue. He did bring about its destruction in this sense but
he was not the destroying angel that poured out fire and brimstone to bring
about the end of these people’s lives.
During the days of Moses when
he was helping to deliver Israel from slavery Yahweh sent an angel called the destroyer to destroy the first born of
the Egyptians.
Ex:12:23: For Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth
the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite you.
This angel could have possibly been Abaddon himself
because Yahweh
called him the destroyer.
The destroyer
was one of Yahweh’s angels to execute wrath on
the Egyptians because of their stubborn resistance against the will of Yahweh.
Then
we see a destroying angel in the story of David.
1st
Chronicles 1: And Satan stood up against
Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
1Chron:21:12: Either three years' famine;
or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of
thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now
therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13: And David said unto Yahweh, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall
into the hand of man.
14: So Yahweh sent
pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15: And Yahweh sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he
was destroying, Yahweh beheld, and he
repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough,
stay now thine hand. And the angel of Yahweh stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. (2Sam:24:16:)
1Chron:21:16: And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn
sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders
of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
1Chron:21:27: And Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again
into the sheath thereof.
1Chron:21:30: But David could not go before
it to enquire of Yahweh: for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
In this story of David the angel of Yahweh killed seventy thousand men with a pestilence. He was
a vessel to pour out wrath upon those who sinned against Yahweh. Although David’s sin of numbering the people opened
the door for this to happen, Yahweh was already angry at Israel because of the sins they were
committing against him and themselves.
Then we read
of another event during the rule of Hezekiah the king of Yudah.
2Kgs:19:35: And it came to pass that
night, that the angel of Yahweh went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and five thousand:
and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses.
Yahweh defended Hezekiah and Yudah from their enemies by sending the angel
of Yahweh to destroy over a hundred
thousand men who were prepared to do battle with them.
An angel will have to unlock
the bottomless pit in order for Satan to be thrown into it. It would have
to be Abaddon he has been given the key
to the bottomless pit by Yahweh himself. He is the angel of the bottomless pit having
authority over everything that is in it.
Revelation
20:
1: And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great
chain in his hand.
2: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal
upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand
years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little
season.
By these things it seems obvious to me that
Satan is a fallen angel who has become the destroyer of good but Yahweh has other angels such as Abaddon who are destroyers of wickedness and evil. May Yahweh cause all of His people to see and understand all of
the mysteries that are hidden from our view and bring the body of Yahushua together in these last days.
Yahweh Bless You and Your`s
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