367) \u201cAnd he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord.\u201d This is Joshua the son of Jehozadak. The angel of the Lord is a place called Zeror, to which the soul of the righteous was tied and all the souls of the righteous are there. This is the angel of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
368) \u201cAnd Satan standing to his right to accuse him\u201d is the evil inclination, which wanders and roams in the world to take souls and to take out spirits from the people of the world, and to slander the people above and below. This was while Nebuchadnezzar tossed Joshua, the great priest, into the fire along with the prophets of falsehood, and Satan was slandering him above so he would burn with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
369) Such is the way of Satan. He slanders only in a time of danger. And when there is anguish in the world, he has permission to slander and to execute judgment even without judgment, as it is written, \u201cBut there is one who is swept away without judgment.\u201d What is to slander? Of what was he accusing? He would say that either everyone is saved or everyone is burned, since when the destroyer is given permission to destroy, the righteous is not saved more than the wicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
370) For this reason, when there is judgment in the city, one should flee before he is caught there by the destructor, since when the saboteur is present, he does to the righteous as to the wicked. It is even more so since all three were together, Joshua the great priest with the two prophets of falsehood, Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, and Satan was demanding that either all will be burned or all will be saved. This is because when a miracle unfolds, it does not unfold as half miracle half judgment. Rather, it is complete and equal\u2014either miracle or judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
371) Thus, when the Creator split the sea for Israel, He tore the sea for Israel and they were marching on land. Then the waters returned from another side, drowned the Egyptians, and they died. Thus, how was there a miracle from here and a judgment from there although they were all together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
372) This is why the tearing of the Red Sea was hard for him, since when the Creator performs a miracle and judgment together, it is neither in one place nor in one house. And if it is done in one place, such as the tearing of the Red Sea, it is hard for him, for everything above is done in full; all is done as one and in one place, either miracle or judgment, but not halves, meaning half a miracle and half judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
373) Therefore, the Creator does not execute judgment against the wicked until they are complete in their iniquity, so He will not have to save some of them from the judgment, as it is written, \u201cFor the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.\u201d Hence, Satan was slandering Joshua so he would burn with them, so it would not be half judgment and half miracle, until he was told, \u201cThe Lord will rebuke you, Satan.\u201d Who told him, \u201cThe Lord will rebuke you\u201d? It was the angel of the Lord who said to Satan, \u201cThe Lord will rebuke you, Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
374) It is written, \u201cThe Lord said to Satan, \u2018The Lord will rebuke you, Satan.\u2019\u201d Thus, was it the Creator saying and not the angel? In regard to Moses and the bush, too, once it writes, \u201cThe angel of the Lord,\u201d once \u201can angel,\u201d and once \u201cthe Lord,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire.\u201d It is also written, \u201cAnd when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see.\u201d Here, too, even though it first writes, \u201cThe Lord said to Satan,\u201d it is possible for it to be an angel as with Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why he told him, \u201cThe Lord will rebuke you, Satan,\u201d and he did not say, \u201cI am rebuking you,\u201d for if the Lord had been the speaker, He would have told him, \u201cI am rebuking you, Satan.\u201d Thus, the speaker was an angel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
375) Similarly, on a day when there is judgment in the world and the Creator sits at the throne of judgment, that Satan is there slandering above and below. He is there to destroy the world and to take people\u2019s souls, since he is Satan, the angel of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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