![]() Let's sail these fiery waves over there, and we can rest (if rest is possible). "Look at the dreary plains of Hell, illuminated by the darkness of Hellfire. ![]() Let us not miss our chance if God's fury has been satiated. And the raging lightening and thunder has perhaps spent its wrath and will cease to bellow through the vast and bottomless deep. "Do you see that God has called our vengeful pursuers back to the gates of Heaven? The storm of sulfurous hail that He shot at us has abated. Our sole delight will always be to do ill! We will always resist His wishes! If he wishes to bring good out of our evil acts, then we shall pervert His wishes and use good acts for evil. But be sure of this: Our acts will never be for good. "Well, Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable, whether we're active or not. What if God (who I now believe is almighty, since He could not have overpowered our army otherwise) has left us our spirits and strength intact only so that we can better endure our sufferings? Or perhaps he will use us as his slaves? What good does it do us to have our strength if we are only to endure eternal punishment?" Our minds and spirits will return to us soon, but we will suffer for eternity in Hell. The entire army has come as close to dying as our immortal bodies are capable. "Oh powerful prince, you led the embattled angels to war your deeds endangered Heaven's perpetual king, and made him defend his supremacy (whether that supremacy was upheld by strength or chance or fate.). Rachel's Notes Lines 127 - 156 (Beelzebub is concerned that they are now thralls of God) Though he was in pain and wracked with deep despair, Satan boasted. But now we know our Foe better! Now, we can wage a more successful war - an eternal war that is irreconcilable to our Foe.that Foe who now joyfully reigns as tyrant in Heaven." Fate has given us immortal bodies, so our army will be just as strong as before. "He'll never get me to bow to him and deify his power! We had Him worried.He was afraid he would lose against my powerful army. So what if we lost that battle? All is not lost! We have not lost our vengeful natures, our immortal hate, or our courage to never yield! What else is there to live for, besides the will to succeed? We fought a battle on the planes of Heaven and shook His throne. "My pride had been injured, so I fought God with my innumerable army of spirits who preferred me as their leader. Who knew the strength of that mighty arm?! But despite what those powerful arms and His mighty rage can further inflict on us, I do not repent. Into what pit have we been thrown? How far have we fallen? God has proven himself much stronger than we. "If you are he! But how you have fallen! How changed from him who was so shiny in Heaven! If you are he who joined with me in glorious enterprise.now we join in misery and ruin. Rachel's Notes on Lines 84 - 126 (Satan tells Beelzebub that he's still pissed off and this war ain't over yet) Satan broke the horrible silence by saying: Weltering in the tempestuous flames by his side, Satan saw Beelzebub - who was his peer in leading the host of fallen angels. Satan saw his companions-in-arms overwhelmed by the tempestuous fires. How unlike Hell was from Heaven, from whence they fell! Here, they would eternally remain in darkness, as far away from God and the light of Heaven as 3X the distance from Earth to the far reaches of the universe. Such was the place that Eternal Justice had prepared for the rebellious. The torment fed the flames, urging the fire on for eternity. Hope would never come here, but instead came endless torture. Hell was a place where peace and rest would never dwell. This palpable darkness illuminated sights of woe, regions of sorrow, and doleful shades. Hell was like a gigantic furnace with raging fires - but instead of giving off light, the flames emitted darkness visible. Hell dismally stretched as far as his immortal eye could see. Dismay and affliction, stubborn pride and steadfast hate were palpable in all he saw. Satan's doom made him angrier, because he had not only lost the happiness of Heaven, but he now must endure eternal suffering instead. the celestial demons spent nine days and nights lying vanquished in the fiery gulfs of Hell. But God hurled Satan and his rebels from Heaven - headlong, like fiery meteors bound in unbreakable chains - to crash ruinously into Hell. ![]() Because Satan thought he was equal to his Lord God, he and his host of rebels had warred against Heaven in a vain attempt to place Satan above his peers. It happened after Satan's pride had cast him and his rebel angels out of Heaven.
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