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The star is referred to as “him”, which is a statement to the fact that “star” is a symbol. We know this represents
a “fallen angel”, since it had already fallen. There is tremendous disagreement among Bible scholars whether this
star refers to an angel or Satan. There is also the question of whom or what is in the abyss - angels or demons?

Tartarus is only known in Hellenistic Jewish literature from the Greek text of Enoch, dated to 400–200 BC. This states that
God placed the archangel Uriel "in charge of the world and of Tartarus" (Enoch 20:2). Tartarus is generally understood to be the
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place where 200 fallen Watchers (angels) are imprisoned.

In the New Testament the noun Tartarus does not occur but tartaroo (“throw to Tartarus”) a shortened form of the
classical Greek verb kata-tartaroo (“throw down to Tartarus”) does appear in 2 Peter 2:4.

2 Peter 2:4 “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed
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them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;” The Greek word translated as “hell”: tartaroō; from
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Tartaros (a Gr. name for the abode of the damned).
Other Biblical commentaries, in reconciling that some fallen angels are chained in Tartarus, have attempted to
distinguish between one type of fallen angel and another type of angel. Angels are different than demons, who
are only spirits. Revelation 18:2 describes “Babylon the Great” as the dwelling place of demons. While fallen angels
are immortal beings who must be chained with “eternal bonds” into the abyss since they are not just spirits.

"If so, we have a problem: Satan and his angels are not locked up in Tartarus! Satan and his angels were alive and active in the time
of Christ, and still are today! Yet Peter specifically (2 Peter 2:4) states that at least one group of angelic beings have literally been cast
down to Tartarus and bound in chains until the Last Judgment. So if Satan and his angels are not currently bound in Tartarus—
who is? The answer goes back to the angels who interbred with humans.
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Genesis 6:4-5 “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God
came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were
of old, men of renown. Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that
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every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The sons of God are angelic “Watchers”, a type of angel. They interbred with the daughters of men and produced
the “giants of old”, “men of renown” or “mighty men.” The giants or Nephilim were mortal beings and have died
because they were born from mortal women. These dead giants became the demons or evil spirits that can roam
the earth. There is a complete description of evil spirits and angels in both the books of Enoch and Jubilees.

Enoch 15 “And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits
upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies;
because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they
shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.”

92 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., Fausset, A. R., Brown, D., & Brown, D. (1997). A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and
New Testaments (Re 9:1). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

93 Kelley Coblentz Bautch A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17–19: "no One Has Seen what I Have Seen" p134

94 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (2 Pe 2:4). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
95 Thomas, R. L. (1998). New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek dictionaries : Updated edition. Anaheim: Foundation
Publications, Inc.

96 Vince Garcia The Resurrection Life Study Bible 2007 p412

97 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Ge 6:4–5). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.