Where is the abyss
What is the Bottomless Pit? Bible Questions with Michael Pearl - Episode 073
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alright here we are to answer your
question Jarrett has the questions I
haven't seen them I'm gonna hear them
the first time just like you are right
now what's the first question jury in
the book of Revelation it speaks of a
bottomless pit could you please explain
this alright let's go to the chalkboard
here if you will now my mind is poor so
a lot of verses I will refer to that I
can't give you the reference immediately
but the Bible speaks of of Hell as down
like this down the Bible speaks of
sinners as descending into the
bottomless pit
it speaks of Devil's coming up out of
the pit all you need to do is get you
concordance look up it and you'll find
all these verses now the Bible speaks of
the gates of Hell place of opening and
then it also speaks in addition to the
bottomless pit it speaks of a lake of
fire and it speaks of outer darkness so
in the Book of Isaiah
it speaks of those who are on the sides
of the pit the Damned and then it speaks
in the Book of Luke chapter 16 of the
rich man dying and being buried and he
lifted up his eyes being in torment and
he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in
his bosom and he said father Abraham
send Lazarus over to dip his finger in
water and cool my tongue from tormented
in this flame and Abraham said son
between you and us Abraham was in what's
called Abraham's bosom
or paradise and the rich man was in the
pit on the sides of the pit in torment
in flames in fire Abraham on his side
was not in flames or in fire and so
Abraham said there's a great gulf that
separates us and those of us on this
side which would cross over to you
cannot and those of you on that side
cannot cross over so he said we are
physically prevented from bringing any
of our water over to the side where you
are now when when the Bible said that
when Christ died he that ascended into
heaven
first descended into the lower parts of
the earth is in Ephesians maybe chapter
5 descended into the lower parts of the
earth it said he led captivity captive
and gave gifts unto men and then it said
many of the saints which slept in the
earth were seen walking around on the
earth during the time after Christ's
resurrection before his ascension into
heaven and then he took with him those
that were raised took with him into
heaven and they will come back with him
at his second coming now why is it a
bottomless pit it's a bottomless pit
because if you have in space a doughnut
a planet that's a doughnut an asteroid
that's a doughnut and another object is
floating near by gravitational forces
are going to pull the two together now
where would the small object end up
attracted to this doughnut it would end
up in the middle without touching the
doughnut in the hole because that's the
center of the gravitational pull now it
would gyrate there in that center
sequence seeking equilibrium as the mass
changed in structure and in size or
volume or shape
as it moved throughout space now there
is a pit that leads into the heart of
the earth
it's called bottomless because it has
two openings it goes all the way through
the earth like this and has gates and
bars that get can be locked and in the
middle of it is the lake of fire called
outer darkness this lake of fire is the
place the ultimate place of the Damned
right here this is the federal prison
this is the local jailhouse prior to
trial the guilty have gone where the
rich man went in a waiting trial the
Bible says in the book of Revelation in
chapter 20 that the the sea gave up the
Dead which were in it that's here in the
oceans and death that's in the grave
death and hell that's anywhere in this
contraption death and he'll were gave up
the Dead which were in them and they all
stood before God and were judged and the
books were opened and another book was
opened which is the book of life and
who's Sarah's name was not found written
in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire this is the second death he
said so this rich man has not yet
experienced the second death he is in
this first death right now just as
Abraham was in the first death just as
the beggar Lazarus experienced the first
death and was preserved in let's call
this paradise a an elite prison a place
where the prisoners go that are rich and
wealthy and haven't committed great
offenses we have those in this country
and their golf courses there and they
have great deal of liberty and there's
really no suffering or punishment but
they're confined that's the only problem
so God has
as it be air-conditioned spot in hell
and there's where he put the Old
Testament Saints who were not who were
saved were not to be damned and he kept
them there until the resurrection at
which time there was atonement made for
them and they were raised to go into
heaven so paradise right now is empty
but on the other side of paradise and
then in many other sides of the pit the
Damned await like like a wasp takes a
spider and sticks it into a cocoon and
wraps it up to preserve it in a semi
state waiting so the Damned are like in
cocoons preserved on the sides of the
pit waiting for the day of judgment when
they be resurrected so if a soul a body
or any substance is cast into this
bottomless pit and goes all the way to
the center it won't hit bottom
there's no bottom to the pit it reaches
the center of the lake and continues to
gyrate in a falling state never reaching
the bottom so it's a pit with two
openings is the only possibility a pit
with two openings on a round planet with
gravitational pull pulling toward the
center so that it never reaches a
bottomless a bottomless pit and a lake
fire that's called outer darkness
because this molten center doesn't have
any oxygen so it doesn't create light so
this is pitch dark red hot and forever
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