The Easter triduum ... Good Friday and what it means

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The Church has always maintained that the Lord was crucified on Friday and rose from the dead on Sunday. In Palestine at the time of Christ Friday was called "the day of preparation" because on it, before sunset, the faithful of Judaism were required to make preparations for Sabbath. It was the sixth day of the week. The Sabbath day was the seventh day and we call it Saturday now. But in ancient Judea a day ended at sunset and the new day started immediately after sunset so the day of preparation ended on Friday at sunset and Sabbath started immediately after sunset on Friday. The Lord died on Friday about the ninth hour - that is about 3:00 PM (15:00) and at that time of year that was about three hours before sunset. According to holy scripture the Lord rose from the dead some time before sunrise on Sunday which is Judean reckoning was the first day of the week. Thus the Lord was dead on the sixth day, the seventh day, and on the first day rising on that day before sunrise. Remembering that days started at sunset the resurrection on Sunday happened some time between 0 and 12 hours into the day.

So why is Friday to Sunday important? Because it informs us accurately of what happened and is in accord with the gospel accounts and even more significantly it explains why Christians have kept Sunday as the day to commemorate the Lord's resurrection. The third day that the Lord predicted as the day on which he would rise is Sunday and that means that the first of the three days was Friday. If I may engage in a little bit of art it looks like this

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[psalms 91]

Remember that days begin at sundown

 

[visionary]

It was the first day of the Wave Sheaf... First Fruits... Yeshua had become the first (firstborn) or the first of the firstfruits of those who have died. The Wave Sheaf or First Fruts is always to be observed on a Sunday or as the Jews call it "the first day" because it is also known as the first day on the count down towards Pentecost.

Yeshua fulfilled all the spring feasts. He was the Passover Lamb, He was the "unleavened" bread, broken, and brought forth of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He is the First Fruits, risen and He gave the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. All these things He did on time, on schedule, and according to the Spring Feasts time frame.

This had nothing to do with Sunday. It had everything to do with the Feasts and Yeshua fulfilling them. Just as I believe that there will be a three and 1/2 year ministry before the Fall feasts will be fulfilled just like the spring feasts were fulfilled with His first coming, the fall feasts will be fulfilled for His second coming.

Yeshua wouldn't let any one touch Him until He had gone to see His Father and perform the First Fruit, Wave Sheaf offering before God in the Holy Temple. That is probably why there were many resurrected with Him. It was Yeshua's Wave Sheaf.

 

[psalms 91]

It was the first day of the Wave Sheaf... First Fruits... Yeshua had become the first (firstborn) or the first of the firstfruits of those who have died. The Wave Sheaf or First Fruts is always to be observed on a Sunday or as the Jews call it "the first day" because it is also known as the first day on the count down towards Pentecost.

Yeshua fulfilled all the spring feasts. He was the Passover Lamb, He was the "unleavened" bread, broken, and brought forth of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He is the First Fruits, risen and He gave the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. All these things He did on time, on schedule, and according to the Spring Feasts time frame.

This had nothing to do with Sunday. It had everything to do with the Feasts and Yeshua fulfilling them. Just as I believe that there will be a three and 1/2 year ministry before the Fall feasts will be fulfilled just like the spring feasts were fulfilled with His first coming, the fall feasts will be fulfilled for His second coming.

Yeshua wouldn't let any one touch Him until He had gone to see His Father and perform the First Fruit, Wave Sheaf offering before God in the Holy Temple. That is probably why there were many resurrected with Him. It was Yeshua's Wave Sheaf.

The part of touching Him was said just as the priests said it because if anyone touched the priest before the offering was presented it would have been no good, not accepted, so Jesus said touch me not until He could present the blood of the sacrifice

 

[visionary]

The part of touching Him was said just as the priests said it because if anyone touched the priest before the offering was presented it would have been no good, not accepted, so Jesus said touch me not until He could present the blood of the sacrifice

Yep.. that is what I am saying... but at the moment He said that.. He was the First Fruit,.... and when He went into the Heavens, He was the acceptable offering before He could be given the authority to act as our High Priest in the Heavenly courts.

 

[psalms 91]

Yep.. that is what I am saying... but at the moment He said that.. He was the First Fruit,.... and when He went into the Heavens, He was the acceptable offering before He could be given the authority to act as our High Priest in the Heavenly courts.

Yes

 

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Good Friday is important. It's liturgy is significant.

The Liturgy of Good Friday
The Gathering
The ministers enter in silence.
All may kneel for a time of silent prayer
The Collect for Good Friday
Almighty Father, look with mercy on this your family for which
our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up
into the hands of wicked men
and to suffer death upon the cross;
who is alive and glorified with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and for ever.
Amen.
Hymn

There is a green hill far away,
outside a city wall,
where our dear Lord was crucified
who died to save us all.
We may not know, we cannot tell,
what pains he had to bear,
but we believe it was for us
he hung and suffered there.
He died that we might be forgiven,
he died to make us good,
that we might go at last to heaven,
saved by his precious blood.
There was no other good enough
to pay the price of sin,
he only could unlock the gate
of heaven and let us in.
O dearly, dearly has he loved!
And we must love him too,
and trust in his redeeming blood,
and try his works to do.​

The Service of the Word
First Reading
Christ offered one sacrifice for sins,
an offering that is effective
for ever, and then he sat down
at the right-hand side of God.
There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool
under his feet. With one sacrifice,
then, he has made perfect for
ever those who are purified from sin.
And the Holy Spirit also gives us his witness.
First he says,
'This is the covenant that I will make with them
in the days to come, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts
and write them on their minds.'
And then he says, 'I will not remember their sins and evil deeds
any longer.' So when these have been forgiven, an offering to
take away sins is no longer needed.
We have, then, my brothers, complete freedom to go into the
Most Holy Place by means of the death of Jesus. He opened for
us a new way, a living way, through the curtain -- that is, through
his own body. We have a great pr
iest in charge of the house of
God. So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure
faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty
conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
Hebrews 10.12-22 TEV
At the end the reader may say

This is the word of the Lord.​

All

Thanks be to God​

The rest of the liturgy (one specific example liturgy) can be read here: http://www.oremus.org/labarum/booklets/holyweek/gfridayliturgypdf.pdf​

 

[visionary]

Good Friday is important. It's liturgy is significant.....

Tradition..

 

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Tradition..

Yes, TRADITION