Revelation 11 Verse 8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
"Bottomless pit" is used several times, and since book of Revelation is a book full of symbols it must be a symbolic term.
- It is used 3 times in chapter 9 to describe the source and inspiration of the symbolic locusts that are inspired by Satan to bring woe to the inhabitants of the earth under the fifth trumpet.
- Used once in Revelation 17:8 to describe the location or condition from which a beast emerges, after it, “is not”, (nonexistent, or dead). It is a place of death (the grave).
- Used 2 times in chapter 20 to describe the prison house of Satan during the millennium, when the earth is turned into a world-wide graveyard, or a place of death.
Romans 10:7 uses the word "pit" (abussos) to describe the grave or place of death. And as we have studied before, Satan's movements are described as emerging from beneath, whereas the things of God are from above (James 3:15–17).
Thus, the nation to rise from the pit would be a new manifestation of something that had existed before. The resurrection of that which was.
1). It would rise around 1798, at the end of the 1260 year period during which the witnesses prophesied in sackcloth (verses 3 and 7).
2). It would attack the Bible - Revelations two witnesses (verse 7).
3) It would manifest a disbelief in the true God - like Egypt (verse 8).
4) It would manifest great immorality - Like Sodom (verse 8).
5) It would be located where Christ, in the person of His saints, suffered terribly (verse 8).
6) It was part of spiritual Babylon - that great city (verse 8).
7) It would be involved in a great political upheaval - great earthquake (verse 13).
We will now see how this prophecy has received the most exact and striking fulfillment in France's history:
1) The French Revolution occurred around the late 1700s, as the 1260-year period of papal supremacy was coming to an end.
2) France attacked the Bible: “The [French] Convention dressed an ass...loaded it with the symbols of Christianity and tied the Old and New Testaments to its tail. It was then led in mock procession...The crowd piled books of devotion into heaps and burned them to ashes, amid blasphemous shouts...A prostitute was enthroned as 'Goddess of Reason'...” L.E. Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 2, pg. 738.
3) France manifested the same God defying spirit that was seen in the kingdom of Egypt (Exodus 5:2), the king of the south. This then is a resurrection of the God defying spirit of atheism direct from a satanic origin.
“France stands apart in the world's history as the single state which, by the decree of her Legislative Assembly, pronounced there was no God.” Blackwood's Magazine, Nov, 1870.
“On November 26, 1793, the Convention, of which 17 bishops and some clergy were members, decreed the abolition of all religion.” The Age of Revolution, W.H. Hutton, pg. 156. This is an echo of Pharaoh's disbelief in God (Exodus 5:2).
4) France was the first country to legalize homosexuality.
5) France had professed to be a Christian nation, but it now boldly turns from God to “kill” His faithful witnesses. In this way they “commit apostasy.” Describing those who turn from the Bible, the apostle Paul says that “they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold Him up to contempt” (Hebrews 6:6).
6) France was one of ten nations making up “that great city Babylon” (Revelation 18:10).
7) The “earthquake” of revolution that shook the country of France caused great fear and terror to come upon the western nations of Europe (Revelation 11:11, 13).
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Revelation 11:8 says, "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."
During the French Revolution, the French Penal Code of 1791 legalized homosexual acts between two consenting adults.
Further reading:
Today in Gay History: France Becomes First West European Country to Decriminalize Homosexuality - Link
Sodomy Laws in France: How The 1791 French Penal Code Decriminalized Sodomy Without The Will of The People - Link