The Lord's Day by James White

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

"The Lord's Day"

By James White

THERE is but one instance in all the Word of God where the term "Lord's day" is found, and that is Rev. 1:10. Neither that text nor its context tells us what day of the week the Lord's day is. Is it not the grossest assumption for any to say that the first day of the week is the Lord's day, with no other evidence than presented in the text? On the other hand, we have three passages of Scripture which declare the seventh day of the week to be the Lord's day or Sabbath; namely: Ex. 20: 10; Isa. 58: 13; Mark 2: 28. The first of these states that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God;" in the second, the Lord calls the Sabbath "My holy day;" and in the third, Jesus says that "the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Here is Scriptural evidence as to what day the Lord's day is. Is it not explicit and sufficient? What matters it what testimony is borne to the contrary by semi-heathen philosophers, or an apostate church? Is not the Word of God sufficient? "What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord." W.