Why do Christians think Revelation 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day…” means Sunday, when....?

Question

when John never used the term Lord’s Day for Sunday but ALWAYS USED “first day” for Sunday:

John 20:1 “The FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.”

John 20:19 “Then the same day [Sunday] at evening, being the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.”

ALSO, THE REST OF THE DISCIPLES NEVER USED “Lord’s Day” for Sunday but always used FIRST DAY, the correct biblical term for Sunday as follows: Matthew, Luke and Paul, once; Mark, and Luke, twice. Read it for yourselves at Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; Acts 20:7; 1; Corinthians 16:2.

Then notice that Jesus said He was “LORD OF THE SABBATH” as it is the Lord's Day, blessed and sanctified at creation (Genesis 2:3; Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5; Isaiah 58:13.

Answer 1

I don't know. But maybe, now that Sunday is our last day of the week so to speak, it is okay. Or maybe the fact that we do have days of worship is enough. I'm not God, I didn't live then. Do you know when exactly that Christians were going on Saturday and then changed it to Sunday??? Perhaps Sunday is our Sabbath to keep us untied from the Catholics, I don't know.

Answer 2

Friend, this Lord's Day is not talking about a certain day of the week, Remember John was on the Isles of Patmos longer then 7 days. So we have to actually see what John was talking about, John was taken up in a vision & John was shown the future, Just as Daniel was, This DAY mentioned here is not Friday Saturday Sunday, or Monday, But it was the day of the LORD to visit John the revelator. & when you are in the total Presence of the One TRUE GOD, then that is the Lords day, let me add one more thing,We as Christians should observing God 24/7 If you also notice in that same verse, it says John heard a great voice as a Trumpet. Now let me go alittle further Verse 11-20 John was told to write these things, Just as Daniel was, But before they could write it, They were told to seal it up until the endtime & only The Bride will know what was said & written, The religious world will NEVER see it or hear it.

Answer 3

When John states "I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day", He was actually experiencing the coming of Jesus on the day that Jesus comes back. It is the Lord's Day to come back. Not expressed as Saturday or Sunday. It can be any day of the week.

Answer 4

Because they do not understand scripture. This is not about which day is the true Sabbath. John is being taken "in the Spirit" (into another realm or dimension, so he can see the future) and the Lord's Day here most likely means "the Day of the Lord" which most scholars agree relates to the Last Days, the end of the world.

Answer 5

Rev 1,10

I was in the spirit on the the Lord's Day

The Christians believe The Resurrection of the Jesus Christ occurred and started in early Christianity to Observe Sunday

knowns by them as the Lord's Days to gather and worship and then when the calendar was changed .. The day became known as Sunday.. and became known as The Day to Worship The Lord. as explain



The Hebrew Old Testament normally uses the unqualified phrase "the seventh day" to refer to days which were not the seventh day of the month, and which could not possibly have fallen on the same day of the week from year to year (e.g. Exod. 12:15,16; 13:6; Lev. 23:6-8; 13:5,6,27,32,34,51; 14:9,39; Num. 6:9; 7:1-48; 19:12,19; 28:17-25; 31:19,24; Deut. 16:1-8; Josh

6:4,15; Judg. 14:12-18; 2 Sam. 12:18; 1 Kgs. 20:29; Est. 1:10).



God Rested on the Seventh Day.. ( Genesis)

http://bible.cc/genesis/2-2.htm



.http://www.thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/99959.qna/category/th/page/questions/site/iiim

The Seventh Day was the Sabbath ( according to the Bible)







Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou

labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of

the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy

son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor

thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days

the LORD MADE heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them

is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the

sabbath day, and hallowed it." (Exodus 20:8-11).

http://www.reformation.org/lords-day-sabbath.pdf



Thus the First Day of the Week

Mark 16.2.

2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

http://www.ucgstp.org/htmlbible2/mar016.htm#V9







THe FIrst day of the Week .. Is Sunday.

http://ecclesia.org/truth/1st-day.html

SINCE THE LORDS DAY WAS THE FIRST DAY AND THE DAY THAT

JESUS ROSE ( BELIEVED BY SOME CHRISTIANS) THEY CHANGED THE SABBATH TO SUNDAY.

New Testament church, under the guidance of the Apostles, apparently felt the freedom to change the day of observance relative to the secular calendar. They still maintained the commanded six-day-plus-one pattern, but shifted their Sabbath observance to the first day of the week relative to the secular calendar. They chose this day most probably because it was the day on which Jesus had been raised from the dead (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 25:1; John 20:1). The risen Lord also chose the first day of the week on which to manifest himself to his disciples when they were gathered together (John 20:19,26). In any event, it seems that the first day of the week probably came to be known as the "Lord's Day" (Rev. 1:10), and seems to have been the day on which the church gathered with the approval of the Apostles (Acts 20:7).

There does not appear to be any evidence in the New Testament that the early church felt compelled to observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, and there is some possible evidence that Paul taught that Christians were not obligated to observe that particular day (Col. 2:16).

In King James version: "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ

http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/koinonia/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=272



Conclusion..

In conclusion, the practice of Sunday observance is based first on the understanding that the Bible does not command observance on the seventh day of the calendar week, and second on church tradition established under the approval of the Apostles. and the change of the

use of the Calendar.

http://www.thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/99959.qna/category/th/page/questions/site/iiim

Answer 6

sunday is not the sabbath nor the day of the lord and we do not go to heaven when we die and Messiah was not impaled on a cross or resurrected on a sunday nor was He born on xmas day but why should we let ourselves get confused with the truth ?

not all christians are the same.

some read their bibles and many do not preferring instead to be taught by the "experts" of which ever religious denomination tickles their fancy ?

my bible tells me i should trust no man - jeremiah 17:5

it also says that i should prove all things - 1 thessalonians 5:21

we all need good reference material - encyclopedias and bible dictionaries - to determine who is telling the truth.

Answer 7

semantics, since the Jews did not call the days of the week as we know them.



the "Lord's day" is also the day of His resurrection. kind of interesting when on that day John had a vision of Jesus as the glorified resurrected King of kings and Lord of lords.



i dont think that John being in the spirit on that day was any different than any other day for him. but it happened to be that on the Lord's day he had that vision/revelation as recorded in the last book of the new testament. a vision that from that day as he every day was in the spirit, stretched out through the following days and weeks until it was completed.

Answer 8

christians dont read the bible,its easier to let someone tell them what they think it means every sunday,just like they think the day of the lord is sunday or when jesus healed the blind,they thought some of these people could not actually see with their eyes and if could never be possible even tho they called him out by name ,it was that they were really blinded to the word of god and not eye sight

Answer 9

Christians do not search for the truth in the bible. They simply believe something with out any biblical authority. Lord's blessed day is sabbath and that is the Lord's day, not SUN DAY.

Answer 10

Jesus was resurrected on Sunday.

Answer 11

--"Christians think"--



This does not make sense...