![]() Here Israel, the earth, is metaphorically pictured returning to the formless abyss or water world of Genesis 1:1-3 after its conquest and destruction by Rome, the sea. First, it presents the destruction and conquest of Israel, the earth, by Rome, the sea or Abyss, as a return to the precreation state of the earth in Genesis 1:1-3. ![]() This sea/Abyss symbolism presents two complimentary messages. See the preterist commentaries on Revelation 11 and Revelation 17. This aquatic imagery also conveys a symbolic message concerning the arrival of the beast embodied by Caesar Titus and the Roman Army to Israel from the sea, waters or Abyss which is Gentile Rome. ![]() Both of these expressions are resurrection imagery pointing to the fact that the beast rises from the Abyss, the underworld of the dead. Thus when the beast is said to come up out of the sea in Revelation 13:1 and come out of the Abyss in Revelation 11:7 and 17:8 these expressions signify the same things. Abyss also has added symbolic significance representing foreign nations as does words like sea, waters or flood (Revelation 17:15 Daniel 7 9:26 11:10, 40 Psalm 65:7 144:7 Isaiah 8:7-8 17:12 60:5 Jeremiah 46:7-8 47:1-2 51:55-56 Ezekiel 26:3 Joel 2:9 Nahum 1:8). In the Book of Revelation, the Abyss is not just the land of the dead (Luke 8:31 Romans 10:7 Revelation 9:11 11:7 17:8 20:1, 3). ![]() These words generally represent foreign kingdoms and yet at the same time also point to the Abyss, the underworld of the dead, simultaneously. Throughout the Bible words like flood, waters, sea and Abyss often appear to symbolize two complimentary things. Though not stated in the above article, there is an added layer of depth to this aquatic imagery in the Bible. For an explanation of how earth often represents a specific kingdom addressed in a Bible passage while sea represents the nations foreign to it see the following link: In the Bible “Earth” Signifies the Specific Land Addressed While “Sea” Symbolizes Foreign Nations. ![]()
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