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Conspiracies of Faith: The Lord's Day
January 12, 2019

In life there are conspiracies and rumors of conspiracies. In Christianity, there should be no surprise when we find conspiracies of faith. The church today is dramatically different than the early church led by the apostles. Last week, we looked at the Sabbath change from Saturday to Sunday, and saw how some see the Lord's Day as the basis for this change. Let's look at the Lord's Day. As the basis for a fundamental change in belief, the phrase, "the Lord's Day," appears only once in the Bible, in the first chapter of the final book of the New Testament.

Revelation 1:10-11
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Most Christians will look at this verse and say that John had the vision that inspired the Book of Revelation on Sunday, which they view as the Lord's Day. The rest of the book goes on to show a strange series of events that lead up to the return of Jesus. In other passages of the Bible when Lord and Day are used together, it has a serious meaning. Is the Lord's Day Sunday, or is it the same as the Day of The Lord?

Acts 2:17-21
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

The Day of the Lord mentioned in Acts, a quotation from Joel, shows the Day of the Lord as happening in the future, not something that happens every week on Sunday. For those who see the Lord's Day as different from the Day of the Lord, grammatically they mean the same thing, much as John's car and car of John also have the same meaning. All that is changed is the style of language. So if on every Sunday all of the events listed in the Book of Revelation occur, then maybe Sunday is the Lord's Day. But if Sunday looks much different to you than what is written in Revelation, perhaps Sunday is NOT the Lord's Day. Paul explains in his second letter to the Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night to overtake unbelievers. Sunday does not come as a thief in the night, but rather comes very predictably on the calendar.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

I respect those who believe Sunday is the Lord's Day and I disagree with them. The Lord's Day and Day of the Lord grammatically mean the same thing, and the Day of the Lord describes a terrifying time from the future, and not Sunday as we know it. One conspiracy leads to another, and next time, we will consider yet another conspiracy of faith.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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