Satan Is Not The Ruler Of Hell

There is a typical misguided judgment that Satan is accountable for damnation and that he and his devils live there and utilize their pitchforks to torment souls for endlessness. This idea has no premise in Scripture at all. Truth be told, Satan will be one of the tormented in the pool of flame, not the tormentor (Revelation 20:10).
Where does the thought that Satan is the expert of hellfire originate from, if not from the Bible? A significant part of the false thinking may originate from Dante Alighiere's epic sonnet The Divine Comedy. Numerous different masterpieces, and abstract pieces, for example, Dan Brown's novel Inferno, take after Dante's lead and picture Satan as the one accountable for damnation.

Dante's lyric portrays the severe drop of delinquents into the underworld. Dante travels through diverse levels of hellfire and limbo and in the end lands in heaven. The sonnet itself was an amalgamation of myths, Catholic thoughts (like limbo), and Islamic customs about Muhammad's "night of climb" (lailat al-miraj). Dante's medieval perspective of damnation is impacted more by the Qur'an than the Bible.

Dante's abstract vision of heck is delineated by Botticelli in his paintingMap of Hellas an underground channel of torment a pitiful underground scene of flame, brimstone, sewage, and creatures, with Satan himself holding up at its center. It's all extremely aggravating, and successful as a masterpiece, yet it is in view of the creative energies of men, not the Word of God.

Satan is not the leader of damnation. It is God who is in control. Jesus says, "Don't be anxious about the individuals who execute the body, and after that can do no more. . . . Dread Him who, after the murdering of the body, has energy to toss you into hellfire" (Luke 12:4–5). Jesus is alluding to God here. Only he has the ability to toss somebody into hellfire. Who holds thekeys of deathand hades? Jesus has outright control over that space (Revelation 1:18). Jesus guarantees all devotees that not even the doors of Hades can beat His congregation (Matthew 16:18)