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The Revelation of Jesus Christ "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatlra, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea" (Rev. 1:10, 11).
"The communion of the Holx Ghost" was the fellowship which John knew, for he was 'in the Spirit on the Lord's day." But what did he mean by "the Lord's day"? Some Bible students believe he referred to the first day of the week, because on that day Christ rose from the dead. Other stu dents of the Word of God believe that John referred to "the day of the Lord," repeatedly mentioned by the Old Testa ment prophets as that day, yet future, which will begin with the great tribulation and culminate in the return of Christ in glory. Three "days" are clearly set forth in Scripture: "The day of Christ," at which time the church will be translated (I Car. I :8); "the day of the Lord," when He will be re vealed on earth as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Acts 2:20); and "the day of God," which will usher in the new heaven and the new earth (II Peter 3: 12). (Other references verify this explanation of terms.) Even if John in Rev. 1: 10 referred to the first day of the week, as well he may have done; yet the fact remains that the vision God gave to him projected him into the future, even unto "the day of the Lord," when He will be revealed from heaven with all His holy angels. That will be a solemn day, a time of terrible judgment. Many times the prophets sounded a warning concerning it. even as Malachi wrote saying: "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stub ble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch" (Mal. 4:1). Of that time of judgment Peter spoke, when on the day of Pentecost he quoted the words of the Lord to the prophet Joel, ,saying: "And I will shew wonders In heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: the
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