{"id":13155,"date":"2018-09-11T07:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2018-09-11T07:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:14:55","slug":"is-the-lords-day-a-proof-of-sunday-observance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/is-the-lords-day-a-proof-of-sunday-observance\/","title":{"rendered":"Is “The Lord’s Day” a Proof of Sunday Observance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 1:10, The Lord\u2019s Day. <\/i><\/b>This verse is one of the cliche biblical passages that mainstream church scholars use to \u201cprove\u201d Sunday\u2019s replacement of the Sabbath. The problem with this position is that there\u2019s no clear scriptural proof that the apostles ever changed the Sabbath to Sunday. What\u2019s more, to view this passage as referring to Sunday is to take a phrase the early church fathers used as a euphemism for Sunday when pushing for Sunday in place of Sabbath observance and to retroactively apply this meaning to John\u2019s use of the phrase. Frankly, it is biased and dishonest scholarship to take the phrase \u201cthe Lord\u2019s day\u201d with its second century colloquial meaning and then to back-apply this meaning to John\u2019s use of the phrase when there\u2019s no reason to believe this was John\u2019s intended meaning.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, the phrase, \u201cthe Lord\u2019s day, can be a reference to the biblical term \u201cthe day of the Lord\u2019s wrath\u201d when YHVH, in the end times, will judge the nations for their wickedness. This is a point that several biblical scholars have made (see From Sabbath to Sunday<\/i>, by Samuele Bacchiochi, p. 111; E. W. Bullinger\u2019s Companion Bible<\/i> footnote on Rev 1:10; The Jewish New Testament Commentary <\/i>on this verse, p. 791, by David Sterns).<\/p>\n

There is actually more scriptural proof that the phrase \u201cthe day of the Lord\u201d is a reference to the seventh day Sabbath than to the first the week. In Isaiah 58:13, the prophet YHVH refers to the Sabbath as \u201cmy holy day\u2026the holy day of the Lord.\u201d So conceivably, it could have been on the Sabbath day itself that John received his vision on the island of Patmos about that great and terrible day of YHVH\u2019s wrath that is to come on the earth just prior to the Messiah\u2019s second coming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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