Satan tends to be viewed as a purely evil entity, while in fact he is instead a deceiver who initially appears good to us on the surface. That’s how he is able to fool so many, and why the world seems to march to his drum beat. His brand of “goodness” is of a selfish nature, however. Just as when he convinced Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, saying that she would be like a god herself if she did. It appealed to her own sense vanity, which we all have an should otherwise guard carefully.
Sounds like the Chairman of the DNC.
I wouldn’t quite say God punished mankind as much as made him aware of the consequences of the sin he gave into.
A fascinating book is called Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heisler. He has his doctorate in Hebrew and other Semitic languages. He has a specific book on Demons but Unseen Realms covers it also. He is solid Biblically. He also has a podcast called The Naked Bible. Kinda out of the box of mainstream evangelicalism while holding firm to the gospel.
The article identifies Joshua in Zechariah as the Joshua who led the Israelites into the Promised Land, but if I’m not mistaken, that’s not the right Joshua. Not that there’s nothing meant spiritually to the fact that they have the same name, but it’s pretty much certain that a different Joshua is specifically meant in Zechariah 3, a later high priest. Much later.
“The Joshua of Zechariah 3 was a Levite and descendant of Aaron in post-exilic Jerusalem in approximately 538 B.C. Joshua’s name also appears as ‘Jeshua’ and is listed as one of the first of those returning from Babylon in Nehemiah 7:7: ‘They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah. . . .’”
https://www.gotquestions.org/Joshua-in-Zechariah.html
Still, it’s a good article.