The November To Remember

The November to Remember!
 
The recount of the events as I best recollect:
 
It was one of those rare days when I was home from work and by that I mean in town. A friend called me up and asked if I could pick up the girls from school. So I did. As we were going home we somehow got into a conversation … let's see I think I asked them a riddle that I had made up.
 
“Who was the first man to say TGIF?”
 
Of course like most good riddles it has a clue but it is hidden and masked – they couldn't answer. 
 
“Adam. He was made on Friday.”
 
To which the little girl in the back said something like “Is that why they say Friday the 13th is bad?”
 
To which I said “No, that would have been the 6th that he was created. Friday the 13th would have been … the … next … week.”
 
And that's how this whole thing got started.
 
There are books on Friday the 13th written which I have read but I've never seen this explanation. And, to tell you the truth if it wasn't for that little 8 or 9 year old girl sitting in the back of my car on the way home from school making that quantum leap of logic … I might not have written this little dissertation.
 
 
 Mt 21:16 … Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
 
 
There have been other October 13ths in history that are relevant to this subject such as:
 
In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great, of Persia, circumvented Babylon's impenetrable walls and gates by cleverly redirecting the Euphrates River with deep trenches. Culminating on October 13, Persian troops then marched out of the north along the shallow riverbed beneath Babylon's walls and secured the city in a single night. The night of the attack caught the Babylonians by surprise as it corresponded with an annual festival they were celebrating. From this point in history, Babylon only declined.
 
Was this also a Friday? I thought that I had heard more than once that it was a Thursday night on October 12th  , 539 BC but I haven't yet been able to find any commentary or such that comments on the day of the week of the event. So, all I can say is that I've heard – tell. No, not evidence in a court of law but this isn't a court of law (if you can really find one of those on this earth nowadays anyway). But the night of October 12th is Biblically, the 13th  and it's a Friday (remember, the evening first then the morning).
 
But others we know of:
 
Here are some from Wikipedia.org
 
The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E.{Author: That's A.D. for those of us who don't know when "common era" actually started because we don't know what was the "common" thing that started this error filled era} whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 - Friday the 13th.
 
Notice the numbers there – 1307 and a Friday and another 13. 
 
I especially pay attention to the month – October. 
 
Keep these things in mind.
 
I remember reading also that the night of the Passover when the Death Angel came and killed all the first-born of Egypt that didn't have the Lamb's blood over the posts in the entry-way of their house was also a Friday the 13th.
 
But for one thing – it's according to how we measure time now and not according to how the Bible measures time. You have to be careful with that kind of thing. The Bible specifically says ...
 
Ex 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
 
But this was the 14th because, again – if you remember from a couple of paragraphs above – first there was evening and then there was morning. So, while it would be the way modern man measures a day – it's not according to the Bible. 
 
 

Warning: This really should be read after reading, or at least be familiar with, Bible Numerology Study but, sometimes that is not possible. Hopefully, I will let that go in the near future. - Author Joseph Michael - almost October 2009