LORD’S DAY

In Biblical usage the word “day” may denote a period of time far longer than twenty-four hours. (Gen. 2:4; John 8:56; 2 Pet. 3:8) Contextual evidence indicates that the “Lord’s day” of Revelation 1:10 is not a particular twenty-four-hour day. Since it was “by inspiration” that John came to be “in the Lord’s day,” the reference could not be to some particular day of the week. It would not have been necessary for John to have been inspired to come to a specific day of the week. Therefore, the “Lord’s day” must be that future time, during which events that John was privileged to see in vision would occur. This included such happenings as the war in heaven and the ouster of Satan, the destruction of Babylon the Great and the kings of the earth and their armies, the binding and abyssing of Satan, the resurrection of the dead and Christ’s thousand-year reign.

The context points to Jesus Christ as the Lord whose “day” it is. Immediately after coming to be “in the Lord’s day,” John heard, not the voice of Almighty God, but that of the resurrected Son of God. (Rev. 1:10-18) Also, the ‘day of the Lord’ mentioned at 1 Corinthians 1:8; 5:5 and 2 Corinthians 1:14 is that of Jesus Christ.