Biblical Proof of Flat Earth - part 2

 

The bottomless pit

Rev 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. 

Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 

Rev 20:3  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.

 This is another mention of the abyss or the bottomless pit where an angel comes down to earth and opens it and casts the devil in and then shuts it. Can a spinning globe have a bottomless pit in it? Even if it ran from the supposed 'North pole' to the 'South pole', wouldn’t it be pointless to cast the devil into it as he would only need to get out at the other end?

The very word ‘bottomless’ is an indication that this hole goes into ground that is infinite. It also leads us to believe that the earth is anchored into this ground because the angel opens the door of the pit from the earth.

I believe that this bottomless pit or abyss runs from the earth into whatever the earth is anchored into beneath the earth. This truth expressed in the Bible is completely incompatible with a globe theory.

The globe theory is pure imagination without any truth supporting it.

 In addition, this abyss is a terrifying place as can be seen from the following section which describes the things that are living there. Even demons are terrified of the place!

Luke 8:31  And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. 

 The word ‘deep’ mentioned here is still referring to the abyss. The demons that possessed the man in the Gedarenes begged Jesus Christ not to send them there.

  

Let us talk about what in terms of living beings or things lie under the earth.

 

The door to the abyss is on the earth and this is indicated in Rev 20:1 and also in Rev. 9.

 Rev 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. 

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 

 The star or angel fell to the earth and this is where he opened the bottomless pit or the abyss. So we know for a fact that this pit is accessed through the earth. Let me reiterate that this fact would not hold true if we lived on a globe suspended in space.

 As we continue reading chapter 9 we see that locusts unlike any we have ever known come upon the earth from the pit. They are shaped like horses, had faces like men, hair like women, teeth like lions and tails like scorpions. They stung people leaving them in so much pain that they wished they could die.

 These are some of the creatures that dwell underneath the earth. We know this because God’s Word tells us so. They are also a kingdom as we are told that they have a king over them whose name is Abaddon or Apollyon. Let that sink in for a moment. This is a kingdom whose army is allowed to come up out of the pit and attack men! They are down there even today!

 

Looking further into Revelation 9 we find other creatures.

 Rev 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 

Rev 9:14  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 

 We learn that the angels are bound in the river Euphrates. We have had this river with us for all these years but have never actually seen or interacted with these angels. Where in the Euphrates are they? Could they be in a prison accessed through the Euphrates?

It must be a huge place because they lead out an army of 200 million horsemen. The horses have heads like lions and out of their mouths come fire, smoke and sulphur. Their tails are like serpents with heads.

Again notice the organization of this army as well as its size. This is an army residing somewhere below the Euphrates river! Can this by any stretch of our imagination be possible on a globe earth?

In case all this seems like it is figurative language, remember this verse in Philippians:

 Phi 2:10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 

All these creatures that we have seen are subject to our Lord Jesus Christ and they bow at His name. But more to the point of our discussion is their mention in the verse above.

The beast we first dealt with is destructive, the locust army is destructive and the four angels and their cavalry are destructive. We can thus deduce that whatever is coming from under the earth is destructive and dedicated to man’s destruction.

However as we have said they are all subject to God and to our Lord Jesus Christ. Even the beast in Revelation 13 only rules because he was given authority over the earth by our Lord for that particular time.