Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
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