The mark of the cross is made on the forehead with ash during lent.
Sign of the cross
The Byzantine sign of the cross made with the right hand.
The Byzantine sign of the cross is made with thumb and the first two fingers of the right hand joined at the tips. The third and fourth fingers are closed on the palm.
The Byzantine way of making the sign of the cross pre-dates the Latin style used by the Roman Catholics.
The sign of the Trinity and Cross are both in the right hand.
The Hebrew word for sin is "chet," which literally means "missing the mark.”
The sign of being forgiven.
During the ancient days of Israel, if a person was forgiven in a court, the person would receive a single ash mark on their forehead for everyone to see; that was done in remembrance of Moses’s snake on a pole.
The Catholic mark is a cross on the fore head made with a trinity sign with the right hand. By the way, the word “cross’ is not biblical; it was added to scriptures.
The Seal of God is the law and the Sabbath Day.
Numbers 21:8’9
The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up
on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up
on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
Deuteronomy 21:23
you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is
hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
1 Corinthians 1:23. NIV
23 but we preach Christ
(crucified / staked out;) a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is
hung on a pole.”
Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised up Yahshua, whom you killed and
hanged on a tree.
Acts 10:39
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they killed and
hanged on a tree:
The word Cross a note
Homeric and classical Greek
In Homeric and classical Greek, stauros meant an upright stake, pole, or piece of paling, upon which anything might be hung.
In the literature of that time, it never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle, but always one piece alone.
Koine Greek
In Koine Greek, the form of Greek used between about 300 BC and AD 300, the word σταυρός (Stauros) was used to denote a structure on which the Romans executed criminals. In the writings of the Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC), Plutarch and Lucian – non-Christian writers, of whom only Lucian makes clear the shape of the device – the word stauros is generally translated as "stake."
Crucify Cross Stake
Stauroo
stauroó: to stake out.
Original Word: σταυρόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: stauroó
Phonetic Spelling: (stow-ro'-o)
Definition: To fix to a stake; fig: To destroy, or mortify.
Stauros
stauros: an upright stake.
Original Word: σταυρός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: stauros
Phonetic Spelling: (stow-ros')
Definition: a stake.
Origin of the word crux. Latin for: stake, scaffold, or cross, used in executions or torment.
The English term "
cross" is derived from the Latin word crux. From about 1635 to 1645 AD.
Labarum
An upright pole with cross section to display a standard such as a flag, banner, or emblem.
Word Origin
From Late Latin, and of obscure origin
This standard was known by the name "
labarum"—a word the etymology of which is very uncertain. The etymology of the word is unclear. Some derive it from Latin /labāre/ "to totter, or to waver." The labarum was also used to hold the ancient Babylonian sky-god emblem.
Patibulum
It is a establish fact that the two-beamed cross was in existence in the time of Yahshua, and that the word crux was used to refer to it. The crux was composed of two main pieces: The stipes, which is the upright pole, and the patibulum attached to it. The patibulum is the cross beam.
Stipe
Stipe is an upright support.
From Latin
stipes "log, post, tree trunk"
Stauros
Stauros (σταυρός) is the Greek word for stake or post.