THE LORD’S DAY

THE LORD’S DAY

Here is some surprising information about the Lord’s day.

All Bible texts are from the King James Version.

The only place in the Bible that mentions “The Lord’s Day” is Revelation 1:10. This verse says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”

Let’s take a look at some other verses in the Bible that refer to the Lord’s Day. The first verse we will look at is Ezekiel 20:12 “Moreover also I gave them MY sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.”

Here God refers to His day as “my Sabbaths,” and He tells us in this verse that the Lord's Day will be a sign between Him and the people who honor it.

Incidentally, many people don’t believe that the Old Testament is applicable for us today, but 2 Tim 3:16 tells us that, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” This means that we should consider the entire Bible as instructions and information for us from God.

Actually there are fifteen verses in the Bible where God refers to the Lord’s Day as this same expression, “My Sabbaths.”

Isaiah 58:13, 14 refers to the Lord’s Day as, “My holy day.” “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”

Next we go to Exodus 20, verses 8 through 11: “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.”

Notice here that the Lord’s Day is the seventh day of the week, Saturday, not Sunday.

Of course we recognize these verses as the fourth commandment, one of the Ten Commandments that God spoke with His own voice from Mt. Sinai. This commandment corresponds to the Catholic's third commandment, because the Catholic Church changed the Ten Commandments. They completely deleted God's second commandment and divided God's tenth commandment into two so they would still have ten. Here is a comparison between the Bible's Ten Commandments and the Catholic's Ten Commandments:

The following chart compares the Ten Commandments as found in the Bible in Exodus 20:3-17 with the Ten Commandments as commonly published in Catholic catechisms.

THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS
As originally given by God
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
As commonly found in Roman Catholic catechisms

1st Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.

2nd Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

3rd Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

4th 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. Honour thy father and thy mother.

5th Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill.

6th Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7th Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal.

8th Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

9th Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.

10th Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.

No only did the Catholic Church change God’s ten commandments, but they changed the day the Sabbath commandment refers to. They changed it from Saturday to Sunday, and they admit they did it.

“Sunday is our mark of authority . . . The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” - Catholic Record, September 1, 1923 (Ontario).

For much more information on this subject, please refer to our book, When the United States Passes the National Sunday Law as Predicted in the Bible. This book is available on this web site.

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	THE TEN COMMANDMENTS As originally given by God	THE TEN COMMANDMENTS As commonly found in Roman Catholic catechisms
1st	Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.	I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
2nd	Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3rd	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.	Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
4th	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.	Honour thy father and thy mother.
5th	Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.	Thou shalt not kill.
6th	Thou shalt not kill.	Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7th	Thou shalt not commit adultery.	Thou shalt not steal.
8th	Thou shalt not steal.	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
9th	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.
10th	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.