Black Friday is a legendary day in American consciousness. It is the rare person who doesn't have a reaction upon hearing the words, and virtually everyone knows what it means. Whether you love it or hate it, most people have strong feelings about it, and it evokes some kind of a reaction. But it is, after all, only another shopping day, not a day which changes the course of humankind forever. It is important economically, on both a micro and macro scale, for shoppers and the economy, but eternity is not altered because of the events of the day.
Black Saturday, on the other hand, is barely acknowledged, even in the households of the faithful Christians who mourn on Good Friday and celebrate Easter. How many of us really stop to consider the battle being waged while the body of our Savior lay cold in the grave? Because that is where the real Promise of the Resurrection begins. Jesus wasn't just resting in the grave, waiting for the Big Reveal on Easter Sunday.
