Revelation 1:9-10 9)I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the Isle that is called Patmos, for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10) I was in the spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. Patmos. 1:9 Patmos is a small, barren, rocky Island in the Asian sea off the southwest coast of modern day Turkey. It faces the city of Ephesus where John had been serving as Pastor/Bishop of the church until the cruel Emperor Domitian had him banished because of His Christian testimony of Jesus. 1:10 the Lords Day. The Lords Day here refers to the first day of the week, , our modern Sunday. Christian congregations evidentiary had been worshiping on the first day of the week for many years by this time. (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2), presumably because they had been excluded from any influence in the synagogue worship on the last day of the week. Furthermore, it would be appropriate to call such a day the Lords Day, in view of Christ victory over death on that day. The grammatical construction does not warrant it to be interpreted as the day of the Lord ( compare 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 11 Peter 3:10). It means, rather, the day belonging to the Lord; the only similar construction in the New Testament is in 1 Corinthians 11:20, describing the Lords Supper. John was first call to address the existing situations in the seven churches. He was not translated to the future day of the Lord until the events of the fourth and following chapters.
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