'Inhabitants' in the Bible

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth's inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality."

The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth -- all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world -- will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come.