Death - the Last Weapon of Satan's Power

There is nothing that the Lord has not gone through: Death is the last effort of Satan’s power; it ends there for the sinner, as well as for the saint. Even the unconverted are out of Satan’s power when they die: If they die in their sins, of course they come under the judgment of God, but Satan has no power in hell. He may have preeminence in misery, but no power there. (His reigning is some poet’s dream; it is here he reigns, and that by means of the pride and vanity, the evil passions and idleness, of men.) He is “the ruler of the darkness of this world” (Eph. 6:1212For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)), not of the next.
J. N. Darby