The Lord's Day Again by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

The Lord's Day Again.

By Editor

A writer in the Marshalltown, Iowa, Times-Republican, of some time ago, who signs himself "Consistency," complacently utters the following:—

However, no one will presume to find fault with the expression "Lord's day," for once in the New Testament, though only once, do we find the first day of the week called Lord's day. John the Revelator so calls it in the first chapter of Revelation. Nor is the appropriateness of this name lessened when we remember that the Mosaic Sabbath was also called the Lord's day.

How does "Consistency" know that John calls the first day of the week "the Lord's day"? John does not say so, neither does any other Bible writer. But the Bible does declare, as this writer admits, that the Lord called the seventh-day Sabbath the Lord's day. In fact, the Lord expressly calls it "my holy day." Isa. 58:13. And Peter says that it was the Spirit of Christ which testified through the prophets. 1 Peter 1:11. Christ, therefore, through Isaiah, as well as by his own lips (Mark 2:27) calls the Sabbath his day, the day of which he is especially the Lord. But nowhere in "God's word written" is the first day called "the Lord's day." Reader, in view of the above facts, what day of the week did John refer to in Rev. 1:10? Answer as you must in the judgment.