Response to the Rhetoric, "what's so good about "Good Friday?"  April 3, 2010 at 5:08pm

 

All controversy in regard to whether this supposed holiday is good, or "not so good," can be ended with a simple look at a dictionary and/or encyclopedia to define the use of the word "good" in this context; eg. www.dictionary.com:

 

"Word Origin and HistoryGood Fridaylate 13c., from good in sense of "holy" (e.g. the good book "the Bible," 1896), also, esp. of holy days or seasons observed by the church (early 15c.); it was also applied to Christmas and Shrove Tuesday."

 

However, the entire concept that this day is somehow a "holy" day and observed as the anniversary of the crucifixion is skewed and lacking of any Scriptural support.

The Messiah was crucified and died at the very time of the slaughtering of the Passover Lambs. Hence, Shaul/Pauls words in 1 Corinthians 5:7, "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.

For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. (kjv)"

 

John 19:30-31: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away. (kjv)"

 

These things took place before the High Sabbath day, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

We can also see from the Scriptures that this was not "friday," for these events took place 3 days and 3 nights before His resurrection which was before the sun came up on the first day of the week.

John 20:1: "The first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. (kjv)

"Mary came to the tomb before the sun had come up on the first day of the week, this is because she kept the weekly sabbath just as all of the other followers of the Messiah. When she arrived at the tomb, Yahshua was already gone, resurrected after 3 days and 3 nights, just as he had promised to those who asked for a sign.

 

Matt. 12:39-40:"But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (kjv)"

 

It would be more accurate to have cooked up a scheme to have a "Good or Holy Wednesday," as this would have been the day of the week the crucifixion fell upon the year Messiah was crucified, but we have no need to do anything of the sort, in fact we're instructed not to do so;

Duet. 12:32: "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. (kjv)"

The day of the crucifixion and the Messiah's substitutionary sacrifice is actually a fulfillment of a Feast of YHWH we are instructed to keep/remember forever. It is in fulfillment of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread! His resurrection is in fulfillment of a Feast of YHWH also, the Feast of First Fruits!

 

The Appointed Times our Father/YHWH wants us to keep is listed in Lev. 23, the entire chapter, and also Duet. chapter 16.Shalom.

 

Karl L. Smith

His Moadim Fellowship

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