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Day 9

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day"

Text: Revelation 1:10

THE LORD’S DAY

The Apostle John used a phrase that is now commonly utilised by Christians. The Lord’s Day is a reference to Sunday. Sabbath remains a word associated with Judaism. It was on the first day of the week that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. In His honour, John used this phrase to describe Sunday.

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,’ and, ‘What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'”
Revelation 1:10-11

1. “In the Spirit”

a) This was a phrase that John employed in the Book of Revelation.

b) This is the first time this phrase was utilised.

2. What does this phrase mean?

a) John was in a heightened level of spiritual consciousness.

b) He was transported into another realm (the real of the Spirit).

c) It is beyond any normal human experience.

d) This too is “a mystery”.

3. A loud voice was heard.

a) John heard the actual voice of the Lord Jesus speaking to him.

b) He had heard the Lord speaking for three wonderful years as one of His disciples.

c) But being in the realm of the Spirit, this new experience was totally different.

4. A special word from the Lord Jesus.

a) He spoke as “The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last”.

b) What tremendous authority the divine voice carried as He spoke to John.

5. The Seven churches of Asia Minor were named as the recipients of messages from the Lord Jesus Christ:

a) Ephesus

b) Smyrna

c) Pergamos

d) Thyatira

e) Sardis

f) Philadelphia

g) Laodicea

6. The task of John.

a) To write in a book of what God would reveal to him.

b) This book (Revelation) would be sent to the seven churches of Asia Minor.