1. Does the New Testament definitely speak of the "Lord's day"?
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Rev. 1:10.
2. What day is the Lord's day?
"And He said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Mark 2: 27, 28.
"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Isa. 58:13, 14.
NOTE.—The text quoted from Mark definitely says that the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. The Lord's day, without any question, would be that day of which the Son of Man claims to be Lord. The text quoted from Isaiah specifically calls the Sabbath "My holy day."
3. What was the custom of the apostle Paul concerning the Sabbath?
"They came to Thessalonica, where was a synagog of the Jews: and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." Acts 17:1, 2.
4. Did he meet with the Gentiles as well as the Jews on the Sabbath day?
"And he reasoned in the synagog every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks." Acts 18:4.
5. Were there other occasions on which the apostle Paul preached to Gentiles as well as Jews on the Sabbath day?
"They came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagog on the Sabbath day, and sat down." Acts 13:14.
6. What is the evidence that there were Gentiles as well as Jews in this congregation?
"And when the Jews were gone out of the synagog, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath." Verse 42.
7. What occurred on the following Sabbath as the result of the request of these Gentiles?
"And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God." Verse 44.
NOTE.—The foregoing scriptures—and others could well be added—should make it perfectly clear to the unbiased mind that neither the apostles, nor the Jews, nor the Gentiles, had any thought, in the days of the primitive Christian church, that there was a change of the Sabbath. The evidence is wholly wanting to support the claim that Christ and the apostles changed the day. On the other hand, we have insuperable evidence that all the Christians of the early church "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment."
