Is Hell on earth a real thing?

We talk about something being Hell on earth.  But is this really it?  But before we got there, let's see what Hell means.  Of course, it's about the devil, Satan, being in charge.  And everything happens his way.  That's what being in charge is about, right?  And one other thing.  For those of you that believe in God, He's not there.

The first Hell on earth

You may remember the very first "hell on earth" experience in the Bible.  

The Fall of Man

Ge 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Ge 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

Ge 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Ge 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Ge 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”

Ge 3:10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Ge 3:11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ”

Ge 3:12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Ge 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Ge 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
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Yeah - the serpent, the devil, tricked Eve and Adam into eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  How?  He told them they wouldn't die.  And he told them they would be just like God. 

(And where was God?  Well, Adam and Eve left God out of it.  Given the relationship they had, it's totally shocking.  But it happened.  And it still happens today.)

Getting back to Satan and Eden, Satan knew the whole time that both things he told Eve were lies.  And how'd he know that?  Because he tried something similar before.  And failed, miserably.

Maybe you don't remember that part?

The fall of Satan - Isaiah

Isa 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
Isa 14:13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isa 14:15 But you are brought down to the grave,
to the depths of the pit.

That's it.  Satan wanted to be like God.  Above God even.  But he lost.  Got kicked out of Heaven. 

Just like we got kicked out of Eden.

And we've been paying the price ever since.

What's our current bit of Hell on earth?

Of course, there are many things that come to mind when we talk about Hell on earth.  But this is the one I'm talking about today.  It's from a report by CNN titled Coronavirus hospital data will now be sent to Trump administration instead of CDC.

Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.