When I first came to Christ I knew very little about the Bible. I said a simple sinner\u2019s prayer, experienced God\u2019s boundless forgiveness and fell madly in love with Jesus. When I was confronted with the Bible evidence for the seventh-day Sabbath, Jesus\u2019 words, \u201cif you love<\/i> Me, keep My commandments\u201d sealed the deal. The love factor has made all the difference for this raised Catholic, \u201cborn again\u201d in Calvary Chapel, nurtured by a Pentecostal youth group and now a baptized Seventh-day Adventist Christian.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been over 30 years and I am still growing in wisdom and Bible knowledge with God\u2019s love as the final arbiter. Not long ago I got jazzed about the easy to read, modern language Message Bible, until I read its rendition of Revelation 1:10:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was Sunday and I was in the Spirit…\u201d (Message Bible).<\/p>\n
Not only did it end up on my heresy shelf, but it caused me to do some serious thinking about modern Bible versions, which then led me to compare every version I could find with Revelation 1:10\u2014my new \u201clitmus-test-text\u201d (say that really fast 10 times). The results were shocking. No less than seven post-2000 Bible translations had Sunday as the \u201cLord\u2019s day\u201d including one Spanish version:<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the Lord\u2019s day [probably a reference to the \u201cfirst day of the week, Sunday…]\u201d (Expanded Bible).<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s day, [c-Sunday]…\u201d (Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2004).<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s Day (the first day of the week<\/i>), (The Voice, 2011).<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in Spirit in the Sunday…\u201d (Wycliffe Bible, 2001 by Terence P. Noble).<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was in the spirit on the first [day] of the week…\u201d (The Hebraic-Roots Version, by James Scott Trimm, 2004, 2005).<\/p>\n
\u201cPero un domingo[a] qued\u00e9 bajo el poder del Esp\u00edritu\u00a0Santo…\u201d (Traducci\u00f3n en Lenguaje Actual (TLA, 2003).<\/p>\n
Neither the Greek nor the Bible itself supports the idea that the \u201cLord\u2019s Day\u201d is Sunday. From Moses, the first Bible author, to Jesus and His final Revelation, God\u2019s word teaches that the Lord\u2019s Day is Saturday, the \u201cseventh-day\u201d Bible \u201cSabbath\u201d (Exodus 20:10; Mark 2:27-28).<\/p>\n
There is a principle involved that reaches beyond our intellectual grasp of truth. It\u2019s about God\u2019s love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yet the Sunday\/Sabbath issue is not just about a day. There is a principle involved that reaches beyond our intellectual grasp of truth. It\u2019s about God\u2019s love. Do we believe that Jesus is in love with us? Are we in love with Jesus? Have we tasted the passionate power of God\u2019s love to decimate our selfishness? If not, we will, in spirit or ink, re-translate God\u2019s word to justify our own personal practices. The only difference between those who \u201cfollow the Lamb wherever He goes\u201d and those who follow Him nine-tenths of the way, will be the love factor (Revelation 14:4). Ultimately we need to be more than right about the truth, we need the \u201clove<\/i> of the truth.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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