Lord's Day

Revelation 1:10-13 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, 11 saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Many derive from this expression, the later much used idea of this expression for Sunday, or the first day of the week. The equating of this phrase with Sunday is once again based upon later Apocryphal writings such as The Gospel of Peter, where such language is clearly used of Sunday, or other early Christian Fathers literature.

The actual Greek phrase, ἐν τῇ κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ, is different than the typical prophetic expression Day of the LORD, ̔ημέρα τοῦ κυρίου which is found throughout the Septuagint and the Apostolic Writings to translate the Hebrew "Day of ADONAI." The main reason for understanding this phrase as "The Day of the LORD," is due to the internal evidence that John is indeed describing the Day of ADONAI, the Day of Wrath upon this earth. Chapters 4-22 deal with these concepts and prophecies.

Revelation 6:15- 17 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

TreWalker said:

There is another understanding.

Many Christians have wrongly assumed that John was referring to Sunday when he said that he was in the Spirit “on the Lord’s Day.” While I understand why people might assume that since Yeshua rose from the dead on a Sunday, also referred to by many as The Lord’s Day, John was actually referring to a specific day of the year in the Roman calendar.

The one religion that covered the entire Roman Empire was Caesar worship. Every emperor after Caesar was thought to be divine. Those who didn’t worship Caesar were considered atheists. The punishment for this depended on the current ruling Caesar.
Caesar or Yeshua!


and Diocletian consecrated this human unity by forming a religious bond.

Because he believed that he had come to power through divine will, as revealed by the “fateful” boar, he regarded himself and Maximian as “sons of gods and creators of gods.” After 287, he called himself Jovius (Jove) and Maximian was named Herculius (Hercules), signifying that they had been chosen by the gods and predestined as participants in the divine nature.


Under Diocletian, the empire took on the aspects of a theocracy.

The end of the reign was darkened by the last major persecution of the Christians. The reasons for this persecution are uncertain, but various explanations have been advanced: the possible influence of Galerius, a fanatic follower of the traditional Roman religion; the desire to restore complete unity, without tolerance of a foreign cult that was seen as separatist and of individuals who were forming a kind of state within the state;

Diocletian - Domestic reforms

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Are you saying "Lord's day" should have been "lord's day" because it was talking about a Roman date respecting the Roman religion and has no reference to our Lord?