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 The account continues: "And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace, and sun was darkened, also the air, by the smoke of the pit.  And out of the smoke locusts came forth upon the earth; and authority was given them, the same authority as the scorpions of the earth have." (Revelation 9:2, 3) Scripturally, "the abyss is a place of inactivity, even of death.  (Compare Romans 10:7; Revelation 17:8; 20:1, 3) The small band of  Jesus'  brothers spent a short time in such an "abyss" of relative inactivity at the end of the first world war (1918-19).   But when Jehovah poured out his spirit upon his repentant servants in 1919, they swarmed forth to meet the challenge of the work that lay ahead.

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