Good Friday

By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson

Why is Good Friday good? I’m sure lots of people have spoken about this over the years, but why shouldn’t I add my pennies worth? I might have something original to say.

Well there is the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement

‘a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, a political conflict in Northern Ireland that had ensued since the late 1960s.’

After all the trouble and strife of the previous decades, the families in Northern Ireland had due reason to think of this day as good. Not everybody thought so. There were still structural issues, like the Roman Catholic Church and IRA for a start.

And Protestants, who despite their protests do not always follow Christ as they should. I have written a bit about Ireland in general under I is for….Ireland which may help more on this.

There are always those seeking to divide and rule and they are behind the Roman Catholic/Protestant divide. This enables them to sell arms and generally cause mischief and harm.

Good Friday may be good because it is a good day for frying! A Fry day, a good day for frying fish and chips! Good business for the local chippy in any event.

But Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday  says this:

"Good Friday" comes from the obsolete sense "pious, holy" of the word "good". Less common examples of expressions based on this obsolete sense of "good" include "the good book" for the Bible, "good tide" for "Christmas" or Shrovetide, and Good Wednesday for the Wednesday in Holy Week.

Obsolete sense?? Perhaps Wikipedia is obsolete if it allows this sort of drivel in its articles. Someone may disagree, but lots of people consider it a good day in the sense that it was a day set apart from others.

A day on which they believe the Son of God died, a special Son of God. As opposed to the other special sons of God which includes the male and female of the human race. Sons because this sound like ‘suns’, and we may all shine, male or female.

As Jesus says, ‘In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven’.

The special Son of God was Jesus who offered Himself as a sacrifice on a wooden cross, really a ‘T’ as I explain under J is for…..Jesus (Mains).

So Good Friday is a holy day or even a holiday which derives from holy day. Many people have it as a holiday, a Bank Holiday in the UK. I used the word derives – amazingly this could be de rives in French meaning ‘of banks’!

Ok, not the same type of bank maybe, but river banks hold the flow of water in place just as banks hold the money and keep it flowing (hopefully)!

Pious? Well, the Free Dictionary says of its meaning:

4. Archaic Professing or exhibiting traditional morality; dutiful.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pious

So obviously that is reasonable, people have lost a sense of duty and morality. But not all people, so I find it hard to believe that the meaning is obsolete, even if the word is not used much.

But what happened on Good Friday regarding Jesus? The story is recounted in detail by the four gospels in the New Testament. You can read about it in the good book, the Bible. Worth a read, and more interesting than you might suppose.

Indeed, I realised in 2020 that I had missed much of its meaning. And that Jesus was far more human than we suppose. We made Him both more than He said he was and less than He was.

Or ‘is’, as He was raised from the dead as I have written about elsewhere. See Easter Day post if you didn’t come via there.

But I asked ‘what happened on Good Friday regarding Jesus?’ Well, there is the journey to Golgotha, translated as ‘place of the skull’.

It is interesting to note that Golgotha contains ‘Goth’ within the word. Makes me think of Goths and Visigoths which came from Germanic lands later on to ransack Rome and the Death Head symbol used by Germany’s military particularly in more recent times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

As regards His death, this is what is called the crucifixion, a particularly nasty form of punishment which the Romans used, ‘Pour encourager les autres’ as Voltaire might have said.

Or as Voltaire was being satirical, ‘to discourage the malcontents’, crucifixion was used to discourage the ones who might think rebellion against Roman rule a good thing.

Jesus was fixed to the ‘T’ as I have explained, rather than a cross. In fact the word used in Greek in the New Testament is, ‘staurou’, ‘stauron’, ‘stauro’ or ‘stauros’ in descending order of number of text entries.

https://biblehub.com/greek/4716.htm

The ‘u’ is pronounced ‘v’ so ‘stavros’ etc. The word means a cross beam, a pole, a stake or stave, even a staff, a tall walking stick.

But if we think of it as a stake, it was a stake out, God set up an ambush for Satan, and killed his power.

It can even be said Jesus staked His claim to the kingdom of God!

Fascinatedly, stauros contains tauro meaning ‘bull’ or ‘bullish’ in Greek. It lies between two S’s, the serpent snake, or Satan snake. Even the SS of Nazi infamy!

It divides the S’s, as Christ cleaves the snake in two.

There’s more: it contains the word tau, the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. 19, hmm…, COVID 19, hmm…1 + 9 = 10, 10 is the number of completeness.

https://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/10.html

There is more in the number which I will explain one day.

Tau is also related to the Hebrew letter Tav, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This letter is in the first line of Genesis.

As regards tauro the ‘ro’ relates to the Father, so it is the ‘T’ of the Father.

The whole is the ‘T’ of the Father splitting the old serpent Satan in two. This is the work Jesus Christ carried out and won in overcoming Satan on the ‘T’ of Calvary.

If you take the ‘T’ out of stauros you get ‘sauros’ meaning lizard in Greek.

And, although it is not spelled the same, the sound is; Soros.  Yes George Soros, the lizard, the serpent who I identify as Satan!

Let’s try some anagrams.

Anagrams of Good Friday

Fido God ray – Fido is Latin for ‘faithful’, Jesus is the Light of the world, the light of God.

fyi God road – for your information Jesus is the way to God.

Ay fiord God – ay as in aye, meaning yes, fiord is a sea road therefore a way to God.

Ay food grid – yes a location for food as Jesus is the Bread of Life.

Day door fig – Jesus is the Day, the light and the door to green pasture. And figs of course, fruitfulness!

Yogi for dad – There are strong parallels as Jesus being the dedicated one to His heavenly Father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi

And as there was a Yogi Bear, well, Jesus was stripped bare!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bear

I yr goof dad – in following Jesus we can be fools for Christ as we seek the Father (a goof is a fool).

But fools are how the world views those who follow Christ, not God.

After all, the fool has said in his heart there is no God.

Angarams ‘stauros’

Roast us – roast lamb, Jesus is the sacrificial roast lamb to fulfil the Old Testament prophecies.

U Tarsus – Tarsus is the heel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(skeleton)

Jesus is the heel, the fulfilment of the Genesis prophecy, his heel will crush the serpents head. See Gen 3 v.15.

There’s more as ‘heel’ can be thought of as ‘he el’, with ‘el’ meaning ‘the’ in Spanish. Jesus is the ‘The’ of Yahweh, see my link G is for…..God.

Star USO – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Service_Organizations

Tao USSR – Jesus is the natural order of the universe, the way of God as He said, I am the way the truth and the life. He is the way for all those of the former Soviet Union.

Tao or Dao is the natural order of the universe, whose character one's intuition must discern to realize the potential for individual wisdom, as conceived in the context of East Asian philosophy, East Asian religions, or any other philosophy or religion that aligns to this principle.

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao

Sort USA – Jesus is the one who will sort out the USA.

Or even as SORT stands for The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, to bring peace to the world.

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/sort-glance

So T ursa – ursa is a bear in Latin

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ursa

There are two bears represented in the constellations, the great and the little.

Jesus is the Little Bear, the heavenly Father is the Great Bear.

And Jesus bears our sins on the ‘T’, the tree, the bare tree of Golgotha.

The Little Bear is in Latin ‘Ursa Minor’ and anagrams to:

I U r ram son. This indicates how Jesus is the ram son, the sacrificial male lamb.

Also note ‘Little Bear’ anagrams to ‘liberate lt’. This indicates that Jesus is the liberating light.

Note also that the Great Bear has two stars which point to the pole star which is Polaris at the tail of the Little Bear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star

The pole star is used in navigation so this is another indication of Jesus as the guiding star, the guiding light.

And note this pole in Icelandic is ‘Staur’ so we return once more to stauro and the stave or stake.

Summary and final thoughts

Jesus told His disciples these words, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross (stauron) and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

The stauron, the stake or stave can be various things. If you are on a journey then in reality you need a stave or staff, a strong stick to fight off wild animals or robbers, or to provide support in difficult terrain.

You can use it to gauge the depth of water one might need to cross.

Following Jesus is a journey, the journey of your life. It is a narrow way and not easy all the time.

But it is like climbing a mountain, well worth the effort for the view at the top. I know because I have been there.

As a stake, well, I suppose like Odysseus and the Sirens, it is something to be tied to as the Harpies siren voices try to lure you to ‘health and safety’, or referencing the vaccines, ‘safe and effective’!

I have followed Jesus since my teens. I recommend Him to you.

So please, if you don’t already, take up your stave, your stake and follow Him.

Look out for the sign of Baldmichael, he will be back!.

P.S. Here are some links which may be useful. This gives a useful list of the things a staff is useful for. The only thing being William Parsons, whose site it is, mistakenly thinks Covid 19 is a ‘thing’.

Wake up William, it’s only the ‘flu!

https://wayfaringbritain.com/why-staff

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