Death in Hades, Together a Moat and Shio

Revelation one, 18 is about the personification of hades in the old testament. The jews and christians are using imagery that is common to their greco roman audience: a god as personified. And so it', it's a way of giving jesus kind of, you know, these powers to conquer andthen, but there is a reality even behind those powers. Of course, those powers would be the satanic forces that ultimately jesus, the christus victor idea of what jesus did at the cross - continued into the underworld.