Good Friday? Good Grief!

If you have placed your faith in a Christ, crucified on a Friday and raised on Sunday; you have misplaced your faith. We are coming up on, what most believe, to be the Holiest of the Christian calendar days – Easter. Preceding Easter, is a week containing memorials of events leading to The Crucifixion and resurrection of the Christ. Unfortunately, Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are all vestiges of Roman influence and in error. Christ could not have been crucified on Friday, and raised about 36 hours later, on Sunday morning. Quote Matthew 12:40; 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. (Just one reference to his tour of duty in Hell.) Now, one really absurd argument used to explain the apparent discrepancy here is that, “In those days, a day was different.” Then the expositor will then explain that the day was a twelve hour period so that Friday night, Saturday day, and Saturday night qualifies as 3 days. This however presents a whole other set of difficulties--to name a few: 1. Two Saturdays (Sabbaths) per modern week. 2. 102 Bible weeks per modern year 3. 730 Bible days per modern year, 4. And, Jesus was about 16 modern years old when crucified. I believe the difficulty lies in two areas. First, Rome had some pagan holidays to incorporate into the Holy Year, and second, a poor understanding of what a Sabbath is. I will not attempt to address Romes rationale on pagan celebrations. Regarding the Sabbath: Generally there are two classes – The Sabbath of the Lord (7th day), and general Sabbaths. (I call them general sabbaths, I'm sure there is a more theological term) General Sabbaths are tied to Jewish feasts/convocations, such as Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is the Sabbath of, John 19:31: Quote 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. It is noted that this was a different Sabbath than others – possibly the Feast of Unleavened Bread Quote Leviticus 23:6: And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: These are special days, but how can it be said they are “Sabbaths”? Feasts and convocations have or are a Sabbath: Quote Leviticus 23:39: Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath. Of course to maintain tradition, one must have a calendar which guarantees that this feast day falls on a Saturday every year. The arithmetic will not work no matter how hard one tries, and this is not the only feast/convocation that is/has a Sabbath. It may seem like a harmless thing to teach The Christ was crucified on a Friday. But it is a lie, after all. Traditions of Men perpetuate confusion – and God is not the author of confusion. There are enough “traditions of men” to burden down the child of God. It’s time we began unburden our brothers and sisters with TRUTH.