Judgment / Question & answer

Is Satan in charge of hell?

Revelation 20 depicts the devil as subject to punishment. That is different from popular portrayals of him as an unpunished ruler managing the suffering of others. Popular culture should not be treated as a biblical source.

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Context and limits

A reported vision of Satan reigning there would need careful comparison with that passage. Identifying a tension under a stated interpretation is not the same as declaring the narrator a liar or deciding their salvation.

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