p. 7 | The True Lord's Day

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 14.

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The True Lord's Day

1. Which days of the week has the Lord given to man?

"Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work." Ex. 20: 9.

2. Which day has the Lord reserved to Himself?

"But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20: 10.

3. Through the prophet Isaiah, which day does the Lord claim as His?

"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.

4. Of what day does Christ specifically say He is the Lord?

"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.

5. On what day did John say he was in the Spirit?

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

NOTE.— The Lord says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." If we say that the house is the property of John Smith, any one would understand that the house belonged to Smith — that he claimed it as his own. In like manner we may easily understand that when God says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," He is claiming it as His. It is "the Lord's day." In the text from Isaiah, the Lord distinctly says that the Sabbath is "My holy day." This is another testimony that the Sabbath is "the Lord's day." Then as a climax to the evidence, the Master specifically says, in the text quoted from Mark, that "the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Then when John says he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, it is equivalent to saying that he was in the Spirit on the Sabbath day. This is a part of the evidence which shows that the seventh-day Sabbath is the Lord's day. There is no evidence whatever to show that Sunday was ever claimed by the Lord as His day, and we have no right to call it such. We are not warranted in calling any day the Lord's day aside from the one that He has said is "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," that He has called "My holy day," and the day of which He says He is Lord.