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The Lord’s Day or Day of the Lord?

Referring to Revelation 1:10, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:

And so here is the very KEYNOTE verse, sounding the THEME of the whole Revelation! And it is here that most people begin to stumble, and to misunderstand!

The theme is THE DAY OF THE LORD. Let us read it: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet" (verse 10).

As this is not understood, endless controversy and strife and confusion have come from arguing as to whether the day of the WEEK on which John WROTE this message was Saturday or Sunday. John was NOT referring to any day of the week.

The day of the week on which this happened to be written—IF it could have been all written within one day—is not important, and that is not what this verse means at all. It does NOT refer to any day of the week—but to that prophetic period referred to in more than 30 prophecies as "The great and terrible DAY OF THE LORD."

As Greek scholar Adolf Deissmann wrote, the grammar and connection both favor the view "according to which 'the day of the Lord' here stands for the day of Yahweh: the day of Judgment" (Encyclopedia Biblica, article "Lord's Day"). New Testament and textual scholar F.J.A. Hort agrees that this meaning fits "best with the context" and "gives the key to the book" (The Apocalypse, pp. 15-16).

In spirit—in VISION—John was carried forward some 1900 years—projected into the DAY OF THE LORD—during the time which is now just AHEAD OF US, to occur in this present generation!

The "Day of the Lord" is described by the Prophet Joel as a time when God will send DESTRUCTION upon the unrighteous and sinning nations of the world. It is described by Zephaniah as the day of GOD'S WRATH. It is described all through the Revelation as the time when God Almighty will soon, now, step in and supernaturally INTERVENE in this hellish strife and friction and destruction among men, and send PLAGUES upon the sinners of the earth! It is the time which FOLLOWS the Great Tribulation, and leads up to and CLIMAXES in the glorious SECOND COMING OF CHRIST!

The house of John is John's house. The Day of the Lord is the Lord's DAY. Listen to the translations of two Greek scholars and translators:

In the Rotherham translation: "I came to be, in Spirit, IN the Lord's Day." The Concordant version: "I came to be, in Spirit, IN the Lord's Day." (Armstrong HW. The Book of Revelation Unveiled at Last).”

Protestant scholar J.A. Seiess wrote:

Revelation 1:1-3
John...says he "was in Spirit in the Lord's day," in which he beheld what he afterward wrote. What is meant by this "Lord's day"? Some answer, Sunday, the first day of the week; but I am not satisfied with this explanation...the Scriptures nowhere call it "the Lord's day." None of the Christian writings for 100 years after Christ ever call it "the Lord's day." But there is a "Day of the Lord" largely treated of by prophets, apostles, and fathers, the meaning of which is abundantly clear and settled. It is that day in which, Isaiah says, people shall hide in the rocks for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty; the day which Joel describes as the day of destruction from the Almighty, when the Lord shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; the day to which the closing chapter of Malachi refers as the day that shall burn as an oven, and in which the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings; the day which Paul proclaimed from Mars' Hill as that in which God will judge the world, concerning which he so earnestly exhorted the Thessalonians, and which was not to come until after a great apostasy from the faith, and the ripening of the wicked for destruction; the day in the which, Peter says, the heavens shall be changed, the elements melt, the earth burn, and all present orders of things give way to new heavens and a new earth; even "the day for which all other days were made." And on that day I understand John to say, he in some sense was. In the mysteries of prophetic rapport, which the Scriptures describe as "in Spirit," and which Paul declared inexplicable, he was caught out of himself, and out of his proper place and time, and stationed amid the stupendous scenes of the great day of God, and made to see the actors in them, and to look upon them transpiring before his eyes, that he might write what he saw, and give it to the churches.

This is what I understand by his being "in Spirit in the Lord's day." (from The Apocalypse: Exposition of the Book of Revelation, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1998, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

The late John Ogwyn wrote:

The Day of the Lord

Most commentators completely misunderstand Revelation 1:10. As a result, they do not understand the perspective from which the entire book was written. When John declared that he was in the Spirit in the Lord’s Day (Note that, elsewhere in the New Testament, the Greek word en is almost always translated "in," though many wrongly render it here as "on"), he was not talking about the day of the week on which he received the prophecy. Rather, he was describing the future prophetic time that he saw in vision—a time when God will intervene powerfully in end-time world affairs. John’s perspective in writing Revelation was this vision of the future (Ogywn J. Revelation The Mystery Unveiled!, 2006, p. 6).

Thus, it appears that many believe that the proper way to understand the expression ‘Lord’s Day’ in Revelation 1:10, is that it is not referring to a day of the week, but is referring to the Day of the Lord.

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Thus, the whole book of Revelation is about the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord (8th Day of Feast of Tabernacles) begins the 1260 day Great Tribulation period, with the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 vials beginning that day.

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More information now posted on my blog. Should complete it by the end of the week then I will go even more viral with it as I believe this theory is very very strong. I have posted my email on my blog if you have any questions or comments.

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Interesting reading IMO, for the believer and non-believer alike.

I'm wondering why you don't have the information from you blog posted as the opening of your thread?
You wrote it, thus there would not be copywrite infringment.
You could even just post the most intriguing info in a bullet-point format, allowing the reader to go to your blog only if they wanted additional info & or commentary.
I have found that many ATS readers are leery of blog promoters (rightly so IMO..) and posting the bulk of what you have to say on the thread with a link to your blog for more info may seem less self-promoting.
I'm not saying that to be offensive and I don't believe you are promoting yourself in any way, you are just genuinely interested in getting this information out there.
Each one of your blog posts could easily be used as individual threads, thus having the potential to reach more readers.
Just a thought.

Thanks for the three bumps. Much appreciated.

Will take me a week or so to complete my findings.

Ah ha! You read my mind. I will do that with bullet-point format or a synopsis for each blog post with the link to go to it. And thus that will allow for individual threads. Thanks for the comments.

And yes I am genuinely interested in getting this information out there.

When I figured out there were 1260 days from Oct. 21st, 2011 (Last Great Day) to April 4th, 2015 (Passover-Blood Red Moon), I knew that meant something very meaningful. And with the further support of Mark Blitz's theory, we have something here to really look at.

Please have a look at this! Here is an email from a reader I just got through my blog:

I have just started looking at your blog regarding the October 21, 2011 date being the start of the Great Tribulation. I haven't read too much yet, and I'm a bit cautious about your reference to Harold Camping (he has predicted several dates in the past for the coming of Christ and has always been wrong. Worse than that, he has caused a lot of anguish on the part of newer believers who put great stock in his predictions. I have experienced this first hand in having to counsel new believers who had listened to him and were greatly distressed).

Notwithstanding the above, I have been thinking and praying about October 2011 myself for quite some time. I have also listened to Mark Biltz and think he has discovered something very much worth watching. It seems as if the Lord is pouring out His Spirit of revelation on many watchmen (and women, like me!) in these last days.

If I may add another thought provoking event to your research: On Oct. 7, 2010, the Spaceweather website included this paragraph in their weekly mailing:

ONE YEAR UNTIL THE METEOR OUTBURST: Every year around Oct. 8th, Earth passes through a minefield of dusty debris from Comet Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. This year, forecasters expect Earth to narrowly miss several of the debris streams, resulting in no appreciable display for 2010. Next year, however, could be different. On Oct. 8, 2011, Earth will have a near head-on collision with a tendril of dust, setting off a strong outburst of as many as 750 meteors per hour. People in Europe, Africa and the Middle East will have a front-row seat for what could be the strongest shower since the Leonid storms a decade ago. Mark your calendar and, meanwhile, follow these links for more information: Draconid forecasts; sky map; history;

Having learned from Pastor Biltz that timing is everything, I looked up the date October 8, 2011 in the Jewish calendar and, sure enough, it is Yom Kippur. Notice that this strong meteor shower will be seen most in the Middle East. Further note that this meteor shower will originate from the constellation Draco, which, of course, is the symbol of the dragon.

I then immediately thought of Rev. 12:4, where the dragon sweeps a third of the stars from the heavens, and again in verse 9 where the dragon and his angels are thrown down to earth. In verse 12 it states that the devil has great wrath, knowing he has only a short time. I believe this "short time" is the great tribulation period.

Could this meteor shower originating from Draco be symbolic of the devil and his angels being thrown down to earth at the beginning of the tribulation? Just another thing to keep watching and praying about.

My reply to the reader's email:

Oh yes, I know about Harold Camping. I mentioned how I felt of him in my blog and said I completely disagree with his May 21st, 2011 rapture date but agree with his Oct. 21st, 2011 date, although I have a different twist to it.

I have experienced first hand when it came to Ronald Weinland whom you might have heard of. He was predicting nuclear bombs going off in America around April 2008 and said that was the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Will I pretty much bought into that. Pretty ignorant at that time.

Yes, I completely agree that Mark Blitz has discovered something very much worth watching, and I feel that my Great Tribulation time code fits perfectly with his theory. The puzzle is coming together.

Yup!!! That is exactly right about the Draconid meteor shower and it happening on Yom Kippur. Are you sure you didn't look at my blog and get that idea from it? LOL If you didn't, which I believe you didn't see what I wrote yet about that on my blog, pretty amazing then!! You have the same idea as me about that!

Here is what I posted related to that:

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The reader's reply back to my email:

Wow! No, I did not see this entry in your blog. As I said, I just discovered it today and have only read one or two of the most recent entries. Very amazing.

Watching & Praying,

After much research and evaluation I have determined that Solomon is the AntiChrist and is associated with 666 in more ways than one.

666 is related to the Sun as well. Sol omon

Will come up with a blog related to this and its association with the Last Great Day.

Do you think "The Restrainer" has something to do with terrorist attacks?
Like, the reason why nations that are generaly regarded as "Christian nations" haven't been subject to more successful terrorist plots?
It just seem like a perpetual miracle when we pass yet another day virtually without incident.
Of course, I'm speaking in broad generalizations here insomuch as the frequency of attacks that one could expect as a jihad target.
Did you know that Israel has gone at least 2 years without any incident other than incoming rockets? And although the rocket attacks did inflict casualties, they were not massive and the attacks themselves seemed to be more bark than bite. No cafe bombs, no car bombs, nothing, and they are right smack dab in the middle of the conflict.
It just seems unbelievable that America has made it this long virtually unscathed on our home land.
Yes, there have been a successful few, but there are countless that are thwarted DAILY in comparison.
Just a thought.

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Who is the restrainer?

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The Restrainer

2 Thessalonians 2:1-9

Then again, it's probably most certain that there are no "end times" and no "tribulation" as reported in religious texts. To believe such a thing requires a belief that ancient nomadic tribes who knew little about the world could "see the future". Nobody, even in modern times, can "see the future". The obsession with religious Armageddon is a tail-chasing exercise.

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And I bet you are one that never even read and looked at my blog. Perhaps you don't care for esoteric understanding?

New information now posted. Almost complete with my blog with the information gathered.