#savedbygod

Lord Jesus I pray for the mothers, daughters and woman in Africa; I pray that they will see themselves through the eyes of the King, who is Jesus Christ, I pray Father God that when they look at themselves they would not be limited by anything that they see; but I pray that they would see themselves as the woman that you created them to be. I pray that they would not be limited in their thinking by the scars on their skin or by the marks from this world; but by the love and the hands that not only carried the cross for them but by Jesus Christ whom upholds their lives through the cross of calvary; remembering that Jesus who loves us so dearly looks at you through the holes in His hands and with eyes of love that held Him on that Cross. God i thank you for the infilling of your spirit that penetrates to the hardest of hearts and is able to heal and bring healing to the most impossible places and even areas in our lives. Thank You Jesus for your Love, Your Kindness, Your presence. Glory to the king who brings Healing and gives Home.

I know I’m going to look back on this journey as the most pivotal time of my life. I have seen God’s power at work in Hell, the unspeakable evils, the suffering souls, and Satan himself. I suppose you want me to pass on a pearl of wisdom as to how you should live your life based on my journey. I wish I could, but truth to be told, all I can say is that we are useless without God. Like the Old Man of Crete, we are destined for Hell unless we repent and surrender ourselves to Him. 

I feel exhausted. I can’t imagine how Virgil must feel right now. 

I’ll admit, I didn’t do much work when it came to escaping Hell.

Virgil, on the other hand, was incredible. He used Satan’s beastly legs as leverage to literally crawl out of Hell, crossing over the center of the earth and exiting into an earthy little cave. For a moment, I felt as though I were being crushed by God’s fist, the earth’s force was pushing on every fiber of my being. We made it out, though. 

I don’t know what I was expecting of Satan. But it wasn’t this. 

It’s so cold in Cocytus that Satan feels like the sun. Everything revolves around him, and he is the only creature down here that is able to move - and move he does. He’s as large as the Titans and has three awful, gnashing faces: one red, one white, one black. The colors are marred by dried blood, pus, flesh, all the things that can come out of a human are found on Lucifer. I find it difficult to believe that this was once the brightest angel in Heaven. 

Ugolino and Ruggieri. Ugolino is the one committing cannibalism.

I’m a little ashamed to admit that yes, I did spend quite a bit of time staring at that horrific scene, The two souls are frozen together so that neither can escape the other’s grasp. According to Ugolino, the two of them had committed treason together, but Ruggieri betrayed Ugolino, sending him to jail, where Ugolino ended up eating his sons. And now ... this was their punishment. For Ugolino to gnaw endlessly at his now-enemy’s neck for eternity.

Something I forgot to cover was the Titans, the living mountains that line the pit to Cocytus. Their bottom halves dangle into Cocytus, but that didn’t detract from how insanely BIG they were. I myself was probably half as tall as one of their noses. They were chained down, thank God. 

Virgil guided me through them, naming particular ones that had tried to rise up against the Greek gods. He did not mention were the gods were (for if the Titans are here, the gods must be somewhere too, right?), so I plan to either ask him later or to do my own research when I finally get back home.