Friends and omit the names of the days altogether, for Moon -day or Thors -

day are equally as bad).  It would doubtless come as a shock to such that

their term 'Lord's day' is equally pagan!  The title for the Sun is 'Lord'.

In Hebrew it is baal.  The Syrians call it Adonis, from adonai, Lord.  Pagan

Rome called the first day of the week Dies Dominica, omitting the word 'Sol'

because the Sun was pre -eminent.  Other days had the planets mentioned by

name.  There is nothing to choose, therefore, between Sunday and Lord's -day

as applied to the first day of the week; both alike are pagan, one masking

the paganism by a traditional sanctity.

The book of the Revelation is taken up with something infinitely vaster

than days of the week.  It is solely concerned with the day of the Lord.  To

read that John became in spirit on the Lord's day (meaning Sunday), tells us

practically nothing.  To read in the solemn introduction that John became in

spirit in the Day of the Lord, that day of prophetic import, is to tell us

practically everything.  Traditional bias is seen even in the rendering of en

by 'on' instead of 'in'.  The Hebrew language does not allow such a

construction as 'The Lord's day', it can only be expressed by 'The day of the

Lord'.  The Greek language, however, like the English, permits of both modes

of expression, and the one used here is 'The Lord's day', making the word

Lord's an adjective.  There can be no difference between the thing signified,

whichever mode of expression be chosen, it is the same day, the difference is

one of emphasis.  Revelation 1:10 means 'the Lord's Day'; had it been set out

as in the Hebrew it would have meant 'the Lord's day', but no other day than

this could be meant by either expression.

A parallel expression is found in 1 Corinthians 4:3, where the

Authorized Version reads 'man's judgment'; it should read, 'man's day', the

construction being the same as Revelation 1:10.  Man's day manifestly means

man's day of judging, as evidenced by the context.  Revelation 1:10 takes us

to a future day, when the Lord and not the man shall be the judge.  'The day

of the Lord' in the Old Testament is either Yom Jehovah, or Yom l'Jehovah, 'a

day for the Lord'.  Isaiah 13:6 gives some idea of the day of the Lord.

'Howl ye (referring to Babylon); for the day of the Lord is at hand; it

shall come as a destruction from the Almighty'.

Verses 9 to 13 go further and close to the imagery of the Revelation:

'Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce

anger ... For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall

not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and

the moon shall not cause her light to shine ... in the wrath of the

Lord of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger'.

The prophecy of Joel is entirely taken up with that day.  'Alas for the

day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the

Almighty shall it come' (1:15).  Chapter 2:1,2 and 11 show how terrible will

be that day; 3:14 links that day with the harvest, and the judgment

of the nations.  Obadiah 15,16 speak of it as a day of retribution for the

heathen in the words that are very similar to Revelation 18:6 -8.  Zechariah

14:1 -11 tells us that in the day of the Lord the nations will be gathered

against Jerusalem, that He will go forth and His feet shall stand upon the

Mount of Olives, that He shall be King over all the earth, and Jerusalem

shall be safely inhabited.