Jesus pulled down satan into hell?

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I Peter 3:18-20For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.As to Jesus not being able to die - he came here on Earth as a human and as such, just as all of us, he would die.Jesus did not suffer in hell. Put aside man's traditional definition of hell as a place of fire and torture because this is totally a result of the traditions of men. In fact, this notion of what we have today as hell comes mostly from Paradise Lost; you'd truly be suprised how many false concepts of hell we attribute to the Bible when they come from a book.Hell is different in a far worse way. It's without God; eternal darkness without the light of God. However, we know from the above verses (and what I state below) that Jesus went into hell and taught these souls and saved some of them.Satan is now in chains but not in the sense that he fell down into hell when this was done. The book of Jude documents this:Jude 1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.Jude 1:9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.It is also confirmed in II Peter:II Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;Satan still has power in the sense that his spirit is present here on Earth. He himself is not yet here, but it is my firm belief he is in heaven(in chains) and the casting down in Revelation 12 will be his casting down to the Earth (this is the documentation along with Jude for where he is).God doesn't have to bind Satan in order to destroy what he does. The action of Jesus binded Satan because all we have to do is come to know God and repent. That makes things a whole lot harder for Satan; now he has to do a whole lot more than tempt us to break a law.