Hi Micah7:9,
Here is a couple of places Ray speaks about the bottoomless pit. The first is in the letter he wrote to Hagee about his comment "The rich man looked from the bottomless pit of eternity" (Luke 16:23). the second is an email.
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First of all, "bottomless pit" is an absurd translation. There is no such thing, and could never be. It's like cold fire and square circles. It doesn't equate. It's an impossibility. Secondly, you take the ridiculous phrase "bottomless pit" and turn it into "The bottomless pit of eternity." Why do you do things like this? Do you just like the way these things roll off your tongue?
A proper translation of Rev. 9:2 is: "And to him was given the key of the well of the submerged chaos." There is nothing bottomless about it. This place is not called "hell." There are no people there. There are locusts and demons here.
Mr. Hagee, it does no good to talk about the exactness of words and then give sermons that are filled with unscriptural, impossible words and phrases. They can only lead to heresy:
"Now the spirit is saying explicitly, that in subsequent eras [latter times] some will be withdrawing from the faith [apostasy], giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons, in the hypocrisy of FALSE EXPRESSIONS ... " (I Tim. 4:1) Concordant Literal N.T.
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In Luke 8, the demons did not fear going to "hell." Read it, Dan, they feared being put back into the "deep" as it is in KJV or more properly the "submerged chaos." It is the SAME word translated "bottomless pit" in Rev. where Satan is held for a thousand years, and THEN he is put into the "lake of fire" (Ver. 10). (He is held in the pit because God has one more dirty work for Satan to perform before he begins his purification in the lake of fire (not the pit).
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mercy, peace and love
Kat
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