Adaddon

As strange as it may seem, Believers are usually afraid to study this subject, leaving themselves ill-equipped to understand more than 250 verses in the Biblical Text and approximately 40 different gods and goddesses.
Abaddon a Hebrew word used in later Jewish Literature, especially the Wisdom literature that appears to be synonymous with the lowest division of Sheol devoted to the punishment of sinners. The name is derived from the Hebrew word abad = means to become lost, be ruined, destroyed, perish. The Greek equivalent is Apollyon which means destroyer. Apollyon is personified as the angel of the bottomless pit in Rev. 9:11, and the king of the demonic locust in Rev. 9. The term Adaddon occurs in parallel and in conjunction with Sheol in both Job and Proverbs, and in conjunction with death in Job and Psalms. The word Apollyon does not appear in its Greek form in later Rabbinic writings, and only here in the N.T. seems to be regarded as the equivalent to Asmodaeus, the king of demons in Judaisic mythology.
Apollyon is the Greek idol of death and pestilence as well as the sun idol, the idol of music, poetry, crops, ect. Although Apollyon is the correct reading, the name Apollo was used as a play on the word Apollo. In the N.T. we see the locust as a symbol of this destruction which poisoned his victims. In the book of Revelation the term Apollon is also used indirectly to refer to the Roman emperors such as Domitian, who like to be regarded as Apollo incarnate.

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