the bottomless pit mentioned in the Book of Revelation, this is simply the pit of Tartarus of the ancient Greeks where the defeated old gods were kept imprisoned. Dragons, serpents and so forth, that are referenced in Revelation, are just the monsters with which we are familiar from countless ancient myths. When you read the Bible from the perspective of someone well versed in ancient mythology, you get a wholly different picture from the one that an ill-educated ignoramus (average Christian) gets. You understand that it’s deploying all the things you have seen before in mythology (that no one now believes are real), except it’s treating them as real.

The notion of Satan being released from his prison in the bottomless pit is the equivalent of saying that the old Greek gods (Titans) could be released from Tartarus to trigger a final, apocalyptic war with the Olympian gods.

The most extraordinary feature of the Book of Revelation is that it says that Christ will reign for a thousand years, unchallenged by Satan. Then Satan will be released (why, you might well ask!) and will rapidly “seduce” the nations. Why does the world so quickly reject Christ’s rule if he has been presiding over an earthly paradise for the last 1,000 years?! Either human beings are irredeemably wicked, in which case why was Christ ruling over them in his 1,000 year Reich (er, paradise), or Christ was perceived as a monster and tyrant who had to be overthrown at the first opportunity. Satan is thus the liberator of humanity, not its tormentor! Of course, the “Empire” then has to strike back with the final battle of Armageddon where “God” uses his death star to wipe out the heroic rebels!

You couldn’t make it up. Well, you could, actually. The whole thing is an absurd Mythos fabrication with zero truth content. Even the Genesis creation myth begins with darkness and the uncreated, primordial ocean (waters of chaos). God separates the waters and holds them back in order to create the world. He is creating from something, not from nothing. And note that Elohim ( “gods”, plural!) are responsible for creation in the Book of Genesis, not El, a single God . Also note that the Egyptians already had the notion of creation proceeding by way of speech (logos). In a sense , things could not exist until they were named (spoken). In demonology, demons cannot be controlled until their true name is known.