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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 7, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 23.

A MARKED DISTINCTION.

By G.

THAT the "Lord's day" and the "day of the Lord" are Biblical expressions of very different import, is evident from a contrast of certain Scripture texts:

The Lord's Day.

John says: "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day," etc. Rev. 1:10. That occurred about eighteen hundred years ago. What is the Lord's day?—Let the Lord Himself answer: "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.

The Day of the Lord.

"Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. . . . Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it." Isa. 13:6-9.

So the day of the Lord is yet future. See, also, Joel 1:15. Much confusion of doctrine is liable to follow a failure to note this distinction between the two expressions herein cited.