Here are new notes on April 8-9. The previous notes are below the horizontal line…
4/8 (Saturday)
Holy Saturday (Western) commemorates the Harrowing of Hell while Jesus Christ’s body lay in the tomb.
Lazarus Saturday in Eastern Christianity, celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany.
Jewish calendar: 17 Nisan (1/17 or 7/17)
Islamic calendar: Ramadan 17, 1444 AH (9/17)
• Aprilis (Wikipedia) -> category Dates 8 dies natalis for the Temple of Castor and Pollux (after mid-1st century AD)
• Haman Hanged (357 BCE)
At the 2nd wine party she made for King Achashverosh and Haman, Queen Esther revealed her identity to the king and began to plead for her people,… (another hanged man)
• Charles III, King of the UK
Born: November 14, 1948, 3882 weeks old (inclusive)
Bible Strong’s Hebrew 3882. Livyathan: “serpent,” a sea monster or dragon
• Adolf Hitler
Born: 4/20/1889, 6990 weeks ago
Jewish calendar:
• Action Comics 1 (Wikipedia)
is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series Action Comics. It features the first appearance of several comic-book heroes most notably Superman.
Publication date: April 18, 1938 (on sale) = 17 Nisan, 85 years ago
Strong’s Hebrew 85. Abraham: “exalted father,” the father of the Jewish nation
Strong’s Greek 85. adémoneó: to be distressed
Usage: I feel fear, lack courage, am distressed, troubled.
• Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire(Wikipedia)
Date: Saturday, 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1783 = 17 Nisan, 240 years ago
Islamic calendar:
• Battle of Badr (Wikipedia) also referred to as The Day of the Criterion
Date: 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan 2 AH), 1442 Islamic years ago
The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention, and by other sources to the strategic prowess of Muhammad.
Battle of Badr, (britannica com), in Islamic history, major military victory led by the Prophet Muhammad that marked a turning point for the early Muslim community (ummah) from a defensive stance toward one of stability and expansion.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Wikipedia), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president.
Died: 11/10/1938 = 17 Ramadan.
It’s the Islamic 87th anniversary of his death
Strong’s Hebrew 87. Abram Strong’s Concordance Abram: “exalted father,” the original name of Abraham
• Mehmed II (Wikipedia), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror
Date: 3/30/1432 (Julian) = 4/8/1432 (Gregorian)
I think he was very important for some reason, just I don’t remember what my reason was for thinking so.
other numbers:
• United States Army Military Government in Korea (Wikipedia) was the official ruling body of the Southern half of the Korean Peninsula from 8 September 1945, 77 years 7 days ago
• 2016 United States presidential election Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton and became the 45th president of the US,
Date: 11/8/2016, 77 months ago
on 4/8 (inclusive) or 4/9
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014.
Born: 2/26/1954, 69 years 6 weeks old
4/9 (Sunday)
April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 266 days remain until the end of the year.
4/9 = 0,444…
(Greek 266. hamartia: a sin, failure Usage: prop: missing the mark; hence: (a) guilt, sin, (b) a fault, failure (in an ethical sense), sinful deed
Hamartia (Wikipedia)… the protagonist’s error that leads to a chain of actions which culminate in a reversal of events from felicity to disaster.; Pope Francis is the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church)
Easter (Western), also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday commemorates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead
Jewish calendar: 18 Nisan
Pharaoh Becomes Aware of Escape (1313 BCE) Pharaoh decided to mobilize his army and pursue the Jews, with the intention of bringing them back to Egypt. (chabad org)
• Baghdad Liberation day
Public holidays in Iraq (Wikipedia) celebrates the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. (Only in Kurdistan region of Iraq).
Baghdad falls to U.S. forces (history com), the 20th anniversary
The number twenty (20), which is one more than nineteen, is twice ten. It can convey a meaning of a complete or perfect waiting period (biblestudy org)
• Deir Yassin massacre (Wikipedia),
Fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups killed at least 107 Palestinian Arabs…occurred while Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British (*) rule in Palestine.
The massacre became a pivotal event in the Arab–Israeli conflict for its demographic and military consequences.
Date: April 9, 1948, the 75th anniversary
* King Charles is 3882 weeks old (exactly) ->
Leviathan (Wikipedia), a sea serpent
PS: I found Iranian numbers on 4/11.
When I found out that Joe Biden is Pontius Pilate (exactly on Good Friday) I really had to laugh…
4/7 (Friday)
Good Friday (Western)
Jewish calendar: 16 Nisan (1/16 or 7/16 (*)), Pesach II, 1st day of the Omer
Islamic calendar: Ramadan 16, 1444 AH (9/16)
Chinese calendar: 2nd Month 17 -> Noah’s flood -> Genesis 7:11 (NIV)
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
(* 7/16 is like July 16: Washington, D.C. was founded, JFK Jr.’s death date, Donald Trump Introduces Mike Pence as Vice President Pick (time com))
• Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the US
Born: November 20, 1942, 4194 weeks old
Strong’s Hebrew 4194. maveth: death
Strong’s Greek 4194. Pontios: Pontius (Pilate), a governor of Judea
Pontius Pilate (Wikipedia)
He is best known for being the official who presided over the trial of Jesus and ultimately ordered his crucifixion. Due to the Gospels’ portrayal of Pilate as reluctant to execute Jesus, the Ethiopian Church believes that Pilate became a Christian and venerates him as both a martyr and a saint, a belief which is historically shared by the Coptic Church (an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt).
Good Friday (Wikipedia) is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. -> category Biblical accounts: “In the morning, the whole assembly brought Jesus to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate under charges of subverting the nation, opposing taxes to Caesar, and making himself a king… Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified in order to forestall a riot…
Jesus agonized on the cross for six hours. During his last three hours on the cross, from noon to 3 pm, darkness fell over the whole land…
With a loud cry, Jesus gave up his spirit. There was an earthquake, tombs broke open, and the curtain in the Temple was torn from top to bottom.”
6/4 at 4:00 PM The President departs the White House en route to Fort Lesley J. McNair -> en route to Camp David
I found that he will stay at Camp David until the 9th here: President Biden’s Travel Schedule | wdel.com
2016 United States presidential election (britannica com)
Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes but won 30 states and the decisive electoral college with 304 electoral votes to Clinton’s 227 and thus became the 45th president of the United States.
Date: November 8, 2016, 6 years 150 days ago
Strong’s Hebrew 615. asir: a bondman, prisoner
Strong’s Greek 615. apokteinó or apoktennó: to kill
Usage: I put to death, kill; fig: I abolish.
UN World Health Day
held every year on 7 April, marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Organization (Wikipedia) is a specialized agency of the UN responsible for international public health.
Founded: April 7, 1948, 75 years = 900 months ago
Strong’s Greek 900. bathunó: to deepen
Strong’s Hebrew 900. bogedoth: treachery
4/7 (Friday) or 4/6 inclusive
• Benjamin Netanyahu, the 9th and current Prime Minister of Israel
born: 21 October 1949, 3833 weeks old (inclusive on 4/6)
Strong’s Greek 3833. panoplia: full armor
Strong’s Hebrew 3833. labiy’: great
Definition: a lion
• Pope Francis
Created cardinal: 2/21/2001 by John Paul II, 8080 days ago
4/8 (Saturday) or 4/7 inclusive
• Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu visited the Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, and the Orthodox Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus. (Vladimir Putin visited Syria, en.kremlin ru).
Date: January 7, 2020, 1187 days ago
Strong’s Greek 1187. dexiolabos: probably a spearman or slinger
Usage: one posted on the right hand, a spear-man.
1 Occurrence Acts 23:23 (NIV)
Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, “Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.
(Strong’s Greek 1188. dexios: the right hand or side)
Speaking of a spearman or slinger Holy Lance, Saint George or David and Goliath come to mind…
Goliath (Wikipedia) -> Biblical account -> The Goliath narrative in 1 Samuel 17
David and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armor and javelin, David with his staff and sling.
I am going to read about all this.
And I found
David’s Sling missile system (Wikipedia)
but I won’t read about it, I wouldn’t understand it anyway.
I will check the numbers of Iran and Israel-Turkey-Azerbaijan, let you know and also send my 4/7-8 notes.