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THE TERM THE LORD'S DAY


The term the “Lord’s day”
33. The term “the Lord’s day” is taken from the Second Witness as used by John in Rev. 1:10.
34. But what does the term the “Lord’s day” mean? Was it the day upon which Jesus rose, the first day of the week? Was it the Sunday that comes each weekend, even though Jesus did not rise on a weekly Sunday? Why not call the sixth day, Friday, the “Lord’s day”? It is the day on which Jesus died. What is it, that Sunday, the first day of the week has, that qualified it for the auspicious term, the “Lord’s day”? Was it the fact that Jesus rose on that day?
a. There is only one Scripture in all the Bible that says Jesus rose again the first day of the week. It is Mark 16:9.
b. However, man Scriptures claim that Jesus rose the third day. The first day of the week is called the third day in the Bible, never the eight day. Matt. 16:21; Matt. 17:23; Matt. 20:19; Matt. 27:64; Mk. 9:31; Mk. 10:34; Lu. 9:22; Lu. 13:32; Lu. 18:33; Lu. 24:7, 46; Acts. 10:40; 1Cor. 15:4.
c. The first day of the week is called the third day according to the chronology of the events. If the first day is the third day since Jesus was crucified, then the seventh day Sabbath was the second day since those events, and the Friday preparation was the first day of His death. The issue of the first day and third day is simply a matter of chronology and nothing else, it is simply a matter of chronology of events and never a sanctifying of the first day of the week. Lk. 24:1-7, 13-21, 46.
35. According to the Bible, the issue was never the day on which Jesus was to die, it was the date that mattered.
a. Jesus was to die on the 14th of the first month as the Passover lamb. Ex. 12:2-6; Lev. 23:5.
b. This Jesus did He died on the 14th of the first month as the Passover lamb. Matt. 26:2; 1 Cor. 6:7.
36. Jesus was also to raise from the dead on the 16th of the first month as the first fruits of them that slept. Lev. 23:6-12.
37. He did raise from the dead on the 16th, the third day from the Passover, as the first fruits. 1 Cor. 15:3,4,20.


39. Thus though these dates happened on a Friday, the 6th day, and on a Sunday, the 1st day of the first lunar month in Jesus’ time, they do not always fall on the same days of the week each year.
a. Christ died on the preparation of the Sabbath this is the 6th day. Mark 15:42-46.
b. Jesus rested in the grave on the seventh day; this is the Sabbath. Lu. 23:54-56.
c. Jesus rose from the dead upon the first day of the week. Mark 16:9.
40. Thus these facts show us the following essential points.
a. The day Jesus died is the date upon which He died-this is the Passover date. Matt. 26:2.
b. The day Jesus arose from the dead, is the date He arose on- this is the First fruits date. 1 Cor. 15:20.
c. The issue is not the day or the name of the day on which Jesus arose, but the date upon which He arose- this is the day of the First fruits, the 16th of the first lunar month. (1 Cor. 15:20; Lev. 23:6-12).
d. Jesus had to rise from the dead on the 16th of the first lunar month to be the true lamb that died and then rose on the third day as the First fruits. 1 Cor. 15:4,20,12-20.
e. Thus the day upon which Jesus arose, the first day of the week, is never to be called the “Lord’s day”, and it is never called so in the Bible. This is so because the date, the 16th of the first lunar month s the important date, and may fall n different days of each successive year. The date is the First fruits day. Lev. 23:6-12.
f. Thus the term the “Lord’s day” must be informed from the context of the Bible, because the 14th and 16th of the first lunar month are the Lord’s date and not the Lord’s days. 1 Cor. 6:7; Matt. 26:2; 1 Cor. 15:20, 23.
41. The word in the Greek translated “Lord” is “Kyrios” in Rev. 1:10.
42. “Kyrios” is used for the Hebrew “YHWH” in the Second Witness/NT. Thus where YHWH, the name of God, is in the Hebrew First Witness/OT, it is translated “Kyrios” in the Second Witness/NT. (Rom. 10:12,13; Joel 2:32).
43. Again “Kyrios” is the Greek translation in place of the word YHWH in the Second Witness/NT quotation from the First Witness/OT. (Ps. 94:11; 1 Cor. 3:20).
44. Again, we see the common Greek word used in the Second Witness/NT for the Hebrew First Witness/OT YHWH, is “Kyrios”. (1 Cor. 1:31; Jer. 9:23,24).
45. Thus the “Lord’s day” is in fact best translated “YHWH” Rev. 1:10.
46. Jesus Himself said that He was Lord (Kyrios/YHWH), of the Sabbath day. Mark 2:28.
47. The Sabbath is in fact the Lord’s day or YHWH’s day that John was on. It is the seventh day Sabbath. Isa. 58:13; Ex. 31:13,16,17; Lev. 19:30; Lev. 23:3; Lev 26:2.
48. Now, in an assessment of what we have learnt from the history of the first head of the Papacy, the Sunday Veneration head, is that, regarding the apostasy from keeping the seventh day Sabbath to Sunday veneration, there are many “firsts” when it comes to teachings and events. Here they are:
a. The first time the first day of the week, Sunday is called the “eight day” for veneration is in the spurious epistle of Barnabas called Pseudo-Barnabas that ranges 117-138 A.C.B. The text states the following:
“Further, He verily says to them: “Your new moons, and your Sabbaths, I cannot bear”. See how He says: The present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but those (are acceptable) which I have made, in which, having made all things rest, I shall make the eight day a beginning, that is a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we celebrate the eight day in festivity, on which also Jesus rose from the dead and having manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens”. Quoted in, Robert L. Odom, Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity, pp. 88-89.

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