Christ descended to the abyss and rose again, and today we can open the abyss in our being to God’s divine dispensing for Christ to come in and make His home deep down in our heart.
Satan as a star out of heaven will be cast to the earth, and he will be given the key to the pit of the abyss; in His death, Christ visited the abyss, and today He wants to make His home in our heart, even to reach the furthest parts of our abyss and dispense Himself into us.
Lord Jesus, we open to You. We open the deepest parts of our being to You. Make Your home deep down in our heart. Have access to the depths of our being. Oh Lord, we do not close any inward part to You. Dispense Yourself into our being more today. May You reach our abyss and dispense Yourself into the untouched and unexplored depths of our being so that You may make Your home in our heart! Amen!
With regards to Christ having the keys of death and of Hades, we need to see that there’s an objective side and there’s a subjective side.
The objective side is the wonderful accomplishments of Christ, the things He has gone through, attained, and obtained.
He paid the highest price to go to death, and that the death of a cross, and He remained in death for three days.
In His death, while He was buried, He went and proclaimed the victory of God over Satan to the imprisoned spirits.
He simply proclaimed God’s victory to those who were angels but left their place as angels and were joined to men, thus breaking God’s ordination and polluting the human race.
Then, He went to the abyss. Wow, Christ visited the abyss in His death! He took a tour of death and Hades, and He came out in resurrection victoriously. Praise the Lord!
Now He is the Christ, the Lord, the One enthroned far above all. He has won the victory, He has overcome Satan, and He has accomplished everything!
As we open to Him, we enjoy Him, we participate in what He is, and His accomplishments become ours in spirit.
He can dispense His life into us because He is the living One, and we can receive His life by exercising our spirit. On the objective side, we need to see what the Lord has gone through, what He has accomplished, and what He has done.
All these accomplishments are outside of us, but we can enjoy them in a subjective way. On the subjective side, we can exercise our spirit to touch the Lord, be joined to Him, and enjoy all His riches.
Also, we can be one spirit with Him, partaking of His death and resurrection, and we are victorious over the enemy with all his schemes.
We can proclaim Christ’s victory, for we’re joined to the victorious Christ in spirit! Hallelujah!
Christ Descended to the Abyss and Resurrected; Satan will be Cast to the Earth and will Open the Abyss
In Revelation 9:1-2 we see something quite interesting: a star out of heaven fallen to the earth, and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss (also see Rev. 11:7; 17:8; 20:1, 3).
This star refers to Satan, who will be cast down from heaven to earth. We see this in Revelation 12; after the man-child is raptured to heaven, he will fight against Satan and will cast him and his armies to the earth.
The angels are likened to stars (John 38:7; Rev. 12:4); Satan was an archangel, the Daystar (Isa. 14:12). He was judged (Luke 10:18) and in Revelation 9:1 and 12:9-10 we see the execution of that judgment.
When Satan as a star will be cast to the earth, the beginning of the last three and a half years of the great tribulation will begin.
He will be given the key of the abyss so that he may open the abyss and release the demon-possessed locusts to torment men for five months. Oh Lord!
These locusts have a king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (Rev. 11:7; 17:8). Abaddon means destruction (Job 26:6; 28:22; Prov. 15:1).
Apollyon means destroyer, and he will do much destroying (Dan. 8:23, 25). The locusts will be released and organised as an army under the rule of the beast, Antichrist, who will be their king.
They will torment for five months those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Wow!
Satan will be given the key of the pit of the abyss, and after he opens the pit, smoke will go up out of the pit of the abyss, and out of the smoke will come forth locusts to the earth (Rev. 9:1-3).
These are the demons; they dwell in the pit of the abyss. They are strange creatures, having tails like scorpions and in the sting of their tails is their power to harm men for five months (vv. 3-5, 7-10). The pain from their sting will torment men, causing them to suffer much pain, but it will not kill them.
Even worse, people in those days will long to die but death will flee from them, and they will seek death and shall by no means find it. What a terrible situation and environment!
This is what the Bible tells us that will happen once the Daystar, Satan, is cast down to the earth; this will happen in the last three and a half years of the great tribulation.
Our aspiration is to be taken up by the Lord before then, so that we don’t go through the fire of the great tribulation.
We aspire to be the Lord’s overcomers, those who overcome anything of the enemy in our being and who give the Lord our best cooperation to be produced as His overcomers today. We want to be those mature in life.
The majority of the believers will be here on earth during the great tribulation, unfortunately, for they have not yet matured and are not ready to be raptured.
In the first part of three and a half years of the last seven years of this age, the Jewish nation will flourish, and they will have the cooperation of a great leader in Europe to rebuild their temple.
They have all the materials ready, and they even have the red heifer being prepared for the sacrifice.
There are quite a few hundred orthodox Jews who have everything ready for the rebuilding; they are only waiting for the clearing of the Temple Mount and the cooperation of this great leader.
Once this happens, the rebuilding begins, and sacrifices will be offered. Then, after three and a half years, this great leader will be killed, and then he will be resuscitated or revived, and he will become the Antichrist.
That will begin the great tribulation of three and a half years, and at that time, Satan will no longer be in heaven but on the earth.
May we not only pray for all these outward events to happen but even more, open to the Lord inwardly to be prepared as His overcomers, those who are raptured before the second half of the great tribulation.
We want to be with the Lord, in the Lord, and even reigning with the Lord!
It is good to know what will happen when Satan is cast on the earth, for he will open the pit of the abyss and many dreadful things will happen; however, as we know all these things, may we cooperate with the Lord to be produced as His overcomers today! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we open to You today. Produce us as Your overcomers. We love You. We give ourselves to You. You are the Overcoming One in us. Oh Lord, even as we see the day is drawing near, we want to make ourselves ready for Your return. Grow in us unto maturity. Deal with any ground of the enemy in our being. Oh Lord, have mercy on us so that we may cooperate with You to the best of our ability for us to be produced as Your overcomers in this age. Amen, Lord, make us those who are raptured to the throne as Your overcomers, the manchild, to cast Satan down to the earth and for the end of the age to come. Oh Lord, gain in us what You are after. Gain the overcomers You need to end this age. Mature us in this age, and mature us quicker. Intensify Your organic salvation in us and with us. Amen, Lord, gain Your overcoming bride in this age for You to have a way to return and end this age! Come, Lord Jesus! We are here for You. We do not live for ourselves; we live for the Lord! Amen
Open the Abyss in our Being to God’s Dispensing for Christ to Make His Home Deep Down in our Heart
Why do we need to know about the abyss, and how does the abyss relate to us? In Romans 10:7 it says that Christ went to the abyss, but He’s no longer there; later we see that He is in our heart and in our mouth. Hallelujah!
The abyss is also mentioned in Revelation 9:1-2 and 11, denoting the place out of which the locusts will come.
Then, in Revelation 11:7 and 17:8 it signifies the place out of which the beast, which is Antichrist, will ascend.
Finally, in Revelation 20:1 and 3 the abyss specifies the place into which Satan will be cast and imprisoned during the millennium.
The abyss, therefore, signifies the dwelling place of the demons, the place where Satan is cast, and the lower parts of the earth.
According to biblical usage, the word abyss always refers to the region of death and of Satan’s power of darkness into which Christ after His death descended as into the lower parts of the earth (Eph. 4:9), which He conquered, and from which He ascended in His resurrection.
In our practical experience, there’s an abyss in our being, and as we remain under God’s dispensing, Christ can make His home deep down in our heart (Eph. 3:17).
For example, when we wake up in the morning and we have all kinds of thoughts, many of which we clearly know are not ours, the abyss is open and things come out of the abyss.
This is why we need to exercise our spirit and turn our heart to the Lord. Many times, the thoughts we have, the imaginations we have, the desires we have, are not what we are; they are from the enemy, from the abyss.
There’s an abyss in our being, in each one of us. There are things in the depths of our being, which we ourselves do not know about or agree with.
Sometimes we may open to the Lord concerning a particular matter, and He may shine on an aspect of the abyss in our being. When His living light scatters our night, it makes everything bright, and we simply agree with the light.
The enemy is lurking there, in the depths of our being, in our abyss. But when the Lord shines on us and we say amen to the light, He removes that aspect from our being.
This is why in Ephesians 3:17 the Lord is making His home deep down in our heart; He wants to get deeper, even into the depths of our being, into the untouched depths in our being, to make His home in us.
On the one hand we have the Spirit in our spirit; on the other hand, there’s the enemy in our flesh, and Satan is deep in the depths of our being.
When we react to something, and the abyss is opened, we may be surprised and even shocked.
When our spouse says a word to us, and we react, we ourselves may be surprised to hear what comes out of the depths of our being.
Sometimes the Lord may allow us to go through some suffering or even be in the hospital, and we may be in bed for a while.
In such times, we can open to Him the depths of our being for Him to shine on the abyss in us, and we can let Him make His home deep down in us.
The Lord wants to go deeper in us. He wants to reach the depths of our being. May we not hold anything back. May we open to Him and say Amen to His shining.
God knows what needs to take place personally in each one of us so that God can have access to our own abyss, the deepest part of our soul.
The Lord will be sovereign in many things to arrange situations, persons, and events in our life for Him to expose what is in the depths of our being.
If we say Amen to His shining and agree with His light, He will make His home deep down in our heart.
We will have deeper and deeper conversations with the Lord, repenting of what He exposes in us and agreeing with His shining.
He will not only give us revelation but even more, He will produce the ministry in us, through much seeing of His desire and also much suffering.
The Lord is making His home deep down in our heart, as we open to His shining and His dispensing, and He is producing the life-giving ministry in us for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.
May we open to Him in this age, in our lifetime, so that He may expose the abyss in our being and, under His divine dispensing, we would allow Him to make His home in the depths of our being.
If we just open, if we agree with His light, and if we just say Amen to His shining, He will remove things from us, He will cast out demons from us, He will make His home in us, and He will produce in us the ministry that is for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.
It does not matter how young or how old we are, we all have the opportunity to open to the Lord and allow Him to make His home in our heart for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ!
He wants to do it, He wants to go deeper in us, and He wants to produce in us the ministry that is for the building up of the Body, the ministry that flows out Christ from the depths of our being into the depths of the saints’ being.
When Christ fills the abyss in our heart, from our spirit within there will be a fountain of life flowing for others to drink, for the building up of the church, and for the producing of the New Jerusalem! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we open to You from the depths of our being. We love You. We turn our heart to You. Have access to the depths of our heart so that You may make Your home deep down in our heart. Amen, Lord, make Your home in our heart. Our heart is open to You, Lord. Shine on us. Dispense Yourself into us. Work Yourself into our being. Oh Lord, You know what is in the depths of our being. You know our abyss. We just open to Your divine dispensing. We open to You and we allow You to shine on us. Shine on anything that comes from the abyss in our being. We just say Amen to Your shining. We do not argue with the light; we say amen! Oh Lord, more shining! Oh Lord, we give ourselves to You without any limitation! Have access to all the parts of our inner being. Oh Lord, the unknown and unexplored depths of our being, we just open! Oh Lord, make Your home deep down in our being! Constitute us as ministers of a new covenant. Amen, Lord, may the ministry of the new covenant be produced in us!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Romans, msg. 23, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 38 (msg. 2), Christ Having the Keys of Death and Hades – day 4.
- Hymns on this topic:
– I hardly know myself; / Deceived so much by pride, / I often think I’m right / And am self-satisfied. / I know Thee even less; / In doctrine, shallowly; / True revelation lack / Of Thy reality. / As for Thy life within, / In darkness I mistake— / If spirit or the flesh, / One for the other take. / Oh, may Thy living light, Lord, / Scatter all my night, Lord, / And everything make bright, Lord, / For this I pray to Thee. (Hymns #426 stanzas 2-4 and chorus)
– So God’s intention was to gain / His kingdom on the earth, / The place where He could fully reign / And show to all His worth. / Thus He began in Genesis / To forward His great plan. / Out of this darkened, lost abyss / Our God created man. (Hymns #1296 stanza 2)
– Make home in my heart, O Lord Jesus, / Make home in my heart, I pray; / That we may be filled with Your fullness, / Make home in my heart today. Into my heart, into my heart, / Spread into my heart, Lord Jesus; / Make home today and have Your way / In all of my heart, Lord Jesus. (Hymns #1134 stanza 3 and chorus)
