W. Robert Godfrey

It's actually an adjectival form.

So if we wanted to try to capture that in English, we'd have to say, he was in the spirit on the dominical day.

In other words, he doesn't say he was in the spirit on the day of the Lord, that phrase we often hear in the prophets of the Old Testament, that eschatological day.

But he's in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, on the Domenical Day, and that adjective, kyriakos, that adjective is only used one other place in the New Testament.

And that's in 1 Corinthians 11, where Paul writes about the Lord's Supper.

Now, that's very important, because you have ordinary suppers,

And then you have a special supper, the Lord's Supper, the Domenical Supper.

And obviously, the Lord's Supper is something very special set apart.

And that's exactly what we find then, I think, in Revelation 1 verse 10.

The Lord's Day, there are ordinary days, there are many days, there are lots of days, but there's a special day.

that in a special way belongs to the Lord, just as the Lord's Supper in a special way belongs to the Lord.

And you see, the problem, I hope, for the people who deny any special day in the New Covenant, if there is no special day in the New Covenant, how can there be a Lord's Day?

If all days are alike, no one day can be a Lord's Day.

Now even putting aside the question, what is the Lord's Day?

If there's a Lord's Day at all, and Revelation 1 verse 10 says clearly there is a Lord's Day, then all days cannot be alike in the new covenant.

It really seems to me that's ruled out in principle by Revelation 1 verse 10.

Now you may quote me and say, I said you shouldn't rest everything on one verse.

Well, I'm not going to rest it on one verse, but this is very significant, very important, I think, in our reflection.

I've tried to offer an exegesis of the passages that are purported to teach that all days are alike to show that's not what they teach.

Well, on the other hand, how are they going to explain away this verse that says there's a Lord's Day in the new covenant?