The Lord’s Day of Scripture

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 31.

The Lord’s Day of Scripture

The Lord’s Day of the Holy Scripture must be the day which the Lord claims as his. In this the word of God is very explicit. In Isa. 58:13 the Lord calls “the Sabbath” “my holy day;” in Ex. 20:10 it is expressly said, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Matt. 28:1 and Mark 16:1, 2 clearly show that this seventh day is the seventh day of the week, the day just before “the first day of the week.” And in Mark 2:28 Jesus Christ declares, “The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath day.” What day, then, according to these scriptures, is the Lord’s day? There can be but one true answer,—the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath of the Lord.