Who is Abaddon?
Who is Abaddon? Turns out, he's the angel you never want to meet.
Padlocked is considered general or literary fiction. If you had to categorize it, it would be a cross-genre work that merges historical fiction with visionary fiction. In the first chapter and during the waning days of World War II, a grenade catapults several souls into the afterlife, where they encounter a padlocked gate and an angel guarding it.
Each soul faces a unique angel. For one unfortunate soul, a Nazi collaborator named Max, he encounters Abaddon.
I didn’t know about Abaddon growing up, as the church I attended never mentioned him. I dreamed about him in the same dream in which the entire book, Padlocked, was laid out before me. I was as surprised as anybody when I discovered he was real and he was mentioned throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.
The name Abaddon is Hebrew; a Greek variation is Apollyon. Both names refer to destruction. He is also referred to as the Abyss or the Angel of the Abyss. Abaddon is the most frightening angel you ever don’t want to encounter, and no one stands a chance against him, no matter how powerful they might have been in their earthly existence. He also works for God, which makes him even more formidable, as he not only embodies his own strength but also has God's all-encompassing authority behind him.
Abaddon is a significant figure in the Book of Revelation as he emerges to fight against Satan and all that is evil. It would not be the first time Abaddon fought Satan, as he is one of the angels mentioned who cast Satan and his followers out of Heaven. Religious scholars agree that a fight between Abaddon and Satan would result in Abaddon’s victory, as Satan cannot match Abaddon’s strength and God’s power behind him.
In Padlocked, Max is a Nazi collaborator in Poland who rises to a position that can determine life or death. As his evolution progresses, he turns his back on his mother, whom he once loved dearly, and embraces a hate-filled ideology. Once a skinny, under-sized boy who was bullied by classmates, he uses his newfound power to even scores. In some instances, scores are not even factored into his decisions, but a determination to be ever-useful to the Nazi occupiers. Even those people who protected him from harm as a boy cannot escape his malicious decisions.
In the afterlife, Max encounters a situation in which he has no control. He cannot claim he was only following orders, because he sits alone in judgment. Neither can he claim that he didn’t know what was going on, nor that he was hoodwinked. One cannot bargain with or debate Abaddon.
Fortunately, not everyone encounters Abaddon when they pass to the other side. It is only those who lack empathy and compassion for other beings, those who revel in doing harm to humans or animals, as all creatures have been created by God, and who have sought malevolence over benevolence. Max’s encounter is, perhaps, a warning to all those who might be tempted to live on the dark side.
Padlocked is considered general or literary fiction. If you had to categorize it, it would be a cross-genre work that merges historical fiction with visionary fiction. In the first chapter and during the waning days of World War II, a grenade catapults several souls into the afterlife, where they encounter a padlocked gate and an angel guarding it.
Each soul faces a unique angel. For one unfortunate soul, a Nazi collaborator named Max, he encounters Abaddon.
I didn’t know about Abaddon growing up, as the church I attended never mentioned him. I dreamed about him in the same dream in which the entire book, Padlocked, was laid out before me. I was as surprised as anybody when I discovered he was real and he was mentioned throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.
The name Abaddon is Hebrew; a Greek variation is Apollyon. Both names refer to destruction. He is also referred to as the Abyss or the Angel of the Abyss. Abaddon is the most frightening angel you ever don’t want to encounter, and no one stands a chance against him, no matter how powerful they might have been in their earthly existence. He also works for God, which makes him even more formidable, as he not only embodies his own strength but also has God's all-encompassing authority behind him.
Abaddon is a significant figure in the Book of Revelation as he emerges to fight against Satan and all that is evil. It would not be the first time Abaddon fought Satan, as he is one of the angels mentioned who cast Satan and his followers out of Heaven. Religious scholars agree that a fight between Abaddon and Satan would result in Abaddon’s victory, as Satan cannot match Abaddon’s strength and God’s power behind him.
In Padlocked, Max is a Nazi collaborator in Poland who rises to a position that can determine life or death. As his evolution progresses, he turns his back on his mother, whom he once loved dearly, and embraces a hate-filled ideology. Once a skinny, under-sized boy who was bullied by classmates, he uses his newfound power to even scores. In some instances, scores are not even factored into his decisions, but a determination to be ever-useful to the Nazi occupiers. Even those people who protected him from harm as a boy cannot escape his malicious decisions.
In the afterlife, Max encounters a situation in which he has no control. He cannot claim he was only following orders, because he sits alone in judgment. Neither can he claim that he didn’t know what was going on, nor that he was hoodwinked. One cannot bargain with or debate Abaddon.
Fortunately, not everyone encounters Abaddon when they pass to the other side. It is only those who lack empathy and compassion for other beings, those who revel in doing harm to humans or animals, as all creatures have been created by God, and who have sought malevolence over benevolence. Max’s encounter is, perhaps, a warning to all those who might be tempted to live on the dark side.
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