Gen. Studies - Card 2                   The Lord's Day - the Day of the Lord

  

1) "And I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet ..." Revelation 1:10.

 

2) According to Sunday-worshipping Christians, the term Lord's Day as found in the Book of Revelation refers to Sunday. The teaching expressed is that John explained he was in the spirit on Sunday.

 

Is that true? Just what should we understand the term Lord's Day to mean?

 

3) By reading Mark 2:28 we can understand that if any day is the Lord's Day, that day would have to be the Sabbath day. "Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."

 

4) Genesis 2:2-3 teaches that the lord God blessed and set apart, sanctified, the seventh day, the Sabbath. Exodus 20:11, "the lord blessed the Sabbath and hallowed it."  Deuteronomy 5:13 informs us that the seventh day is the Sabbath  

 

of the lord thy God.  The seventh day, the Sabbath Day, not Sunday is the lord's day, if indeed any day is to be called such. But is that what John meant?

 

5) What of the term Lord's Day; just want does this term mean? Let's start by understanding that the book of revelation was written by John in the Greek language. As such John used the Greek phrase - Kurios hemera.  Translated into the English this term literally means Lord Day or by understanding the possessive phrase grammar, the Lord's Day. By definition we understand this to mean - the day that is owned by the Lord. If John owns a house or car it would be John's house or John's car. Consequently, the day which is owned by the Lord is called the Lord's Day. Now if not the Sabbath, then what is the Lord's Day?

 

6) To understand the answer we must recognize that John, being "in the Spirit," refers to him being in vision or having a vision or spiritually revealed insight beyond his existing in the actual reality. He was allowed to see future events. Notice Revelation 4:2, 17:3 and 21:10.  John was seeing visions of future events and recording those events as he saw and understood them. This of course is what the book of Revelation is all about; Revelation 1:1-2.

 

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