Locked Out

God could not get into hell.  It was Satan's lair.  It is like matter and antimatter. They just don't mix.  The only way to get into hell was if you were a human being who died.  God wanted to get to those humans and free them up.  What to do?  God became a human being.  Satan wasn't sure at first that Jesus was God because Jesus was born in a stable manger and lived a pretty ordinary life for a bunch of years.  Satan was watching though.   He does not miss much.  He was smart, but evil.  Satan heard some rumblings at Jesus' baptism and went on alert.  When Jesus went into the desert the devil came around to tempt him.  Satan offered power, prestige, and such that all humans seem to go after.  He failed.  So he bided his time thinking, "I will give this Jesus God a miserable life, no place to lay his head and then find some fools to condemn him to a miserable death.  Maybe he will weaken in those dying moments and curse God and then I will have him in hell!"  The plan was hatched.  Religious and political authorities wanting power and control, did Satan's bidding.  Death and burial followed.  "Victory," said Satan, as the Spirit of Jesus descended into hell.  Oops!  God trumped Satan.  The dead Jesus had key to the gate in his human nature.  He freed people waiting to be freed.  It is part of the Apostles Creed if you don't believe me.  "He descended into hell," it says.  Then came the Resurrection.  Satan did not figure on this.  Death was Satan's joy since Adam and Eve.  Now even that is not the final word.  Satan is tricky.  God is more tricky.  Satan forgot that he is only an angel.  A big ego gets you every time, no?