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Revelation 9:1

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.

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ASV

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

KJV

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.

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24 tagged words
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πέμπτοςpemptosfifthG3991 →
ἄγγελοςangelosangelG32 →
ἐσάλπισεν,esalpisensounded [his] trumpet,G4537 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
εἶδονeidonI sawG1492 →
ἀστέραasteraa starG792 →
ἐκekout ofG1537 →
τοῦtou<the>G3588 →
οὐρανοῦouranouheavenG3772 →
πεπτωκόταpeptōkotahaving fallenG4098 →
εἰςeistoG1519 →
τὴνtēntheG3588 →
γῆν,gēnearth,G1093 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἐδόθηedothēwas givenG1325 →
αὐτῷautōto itG846 →
ἡhētheG3588 →
κλεὶςkleiskeyG2807 →
τοῦtouof theG3588 →
φρέατοςphreatospitG5421 →
τῆςtēsof theG3588 →
ἀβύσσου,abussouabyss,G12 →

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Revelation 8:10Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.Matthew 16:19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”Revelation 9:2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.Romans 10:7or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.2 Timothy 3:1–5But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.Luke 8:31And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.Revelation 17:8The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.Revelation 9:11–13They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.Revelation 11:14–15The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.Luke 10:18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.Revelation 8:6–8And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.Revelation 8:12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.Revelation 6:13and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.2 Thessalonians 2:3–8Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.Revelation 1:20This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel, 1541): the final sorting the intermediate states await.

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Afterlife Vocabulary

Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus, the Abyss, and Paradise — six words English hid inside one, disambiguated and sourced.

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Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter — Pietro Perugino

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The Key

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Guido Reni, The Archangel Michael defeating Satan: the war of Revelation 12 in a single frame.

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Satan

The adversary of Scripture — serpent in a garden, dragon in a lake of fire, and a real fallen being whose defeat was sealed at the cross.

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Guido Reni, St. Michael Trampling the Devil (c. 1635): the enemy of Revelation 12 named and defeated.

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The Names of Satan

Scripture rarely gives the adversary a plain name — it gives him titles, and each one is a claim about what he does.

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The Signs on the Door — James Tissot

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Taw — The Mark of God

The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet — drawn in the Sinaitic script as a cross — appears at the decisive moments of judgment and rescue: the doorposts of Goshen, the foreheads in Jerusalem, the sealing of the 144,000, and the cross at Golgotha.

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The Transfiguration — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
The Transfiguration — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
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