Then the star opened the hole leading to the bottomless pit. Smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. The sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole.
After the sun went down, it became very dark. The dead animals still lay on the ground—each animal cut in two pieces. At that time, a column of smoke and fire [86] passed between the halves of the dead animals. [87]
Abraham looked down toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham looked at all the land in the valley. Abraham saw much smoke rising from the land. It looked like smoke from a very big fire.
Mount Sinai was covered with smoke. Smoke rose off the mountain like smoke from a furnace. This happened because the Lord came down to the mountain in fire. Also, the whole mountain began to shake.
You people near the city gates, cry!\par You people in the city, cry out!\par All of you people in Philistia\par will be frightened.\par Your courage will melt like hot wax.\par
It will be a dark, gloomy day.\par It will be a dark and cloudy day.\par At sunrise, you will see the army\par spread over the mountains.\par It will be a great and powerful army.\par There has never been anything\par like it before.\par And there will never be anything\par like it again.\par
I will show amazing things\par in the sky above.\par I will give proofs\par on the earth below.\par There will be blood, fire,\par and thick smoke.\par
And the smoke from their burning pain will rise forever and ever. There will be no rest, day or night, for those people who worship the animal and his idol or who get the mark of his name.”
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the animal. And darkness covered the animal’s kingdom. People bit their tongues because of the pain.
The fourth angel blew his trumpet. Then one third of the sun and one third of the moon and one third of the stars were struck. So one third of them became dark. A third of the day and night was without light.
The fifth angel blew his trumpet. Then I saw a star fall from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the deep hole that leads down to the bottomless pit.
The locusts had a ruler. The ruler was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon. {\cf2\super [69]} In the Greek language his name is Apollyon (Destroyer).
In my vision {\cf2\super [71]} I saw the horses and the riders on the horses. They looked like this: They had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow like sulfur. The heads of the horses looked like heads of lions. The horses had fire, smoke, and sulfur coming out of their mouths.