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John's Vision on Patmos
9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.10OntheLord’sdayI wasinthe Spirit,andI heardbehindmea loudvoicelikea trumpet,11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”…

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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

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Revelation 4:2
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, andone sat on the throne.

Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

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John 20:19,26
Then the same day at evening, being the firstday of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peacebe unto you…

Acts 20:7
And upon the firstday of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

1 Corinthians 16:2
Upon the firstday of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, asGod hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

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Revelation 4:1
After this I looked, and, behold, a doorwas opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heardwas as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

Revelation 10:3-8
And cried with a loud voice, aswhen a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices…

BlastEarsFoundGreatHeardHornLord'sPresentResembledSoundSpiritTrumpetVoiceBlastEarsFoundGreatHeardHornLord'sPresentResembledSoundSpiritTrumpetVoice1.The preface.
4.John's salutation to the seven churches of Asia.
7.The coming of Christ.
8.His glorious power and majesty.

On the Lord’s day
This phrase is traditionally understood to refer to Sunday, the first day of the week, which early Christians observed in commemoration of Jesus Christ's resurrection. The term "Lord's day" is distinct from the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and reflects the shift in worship practices among early Christians. This day became significant for gathering, worship, and breaking bread, as seen inActs 20:7 and1 Corinthians 16:2.

I was in the Spirit
Being "in the Spirit" indicates a state of spiritual ecstasy or prophetic vision, where the Holy Spirit enables a deeper level of revelation. This experience is similar to those of Old Testament prophets, such as Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:2) and Daniel (Daniel 10:7-10), who were also transported into a divine realm to receive God's messages. It suggests a heightened awareness and receptivity to divine communication.

and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
The "loud voice like a trumpet" signifies authority and urgency, often associated with divine revelation. In biblical times, trumpets were used to announce significant events or to gather people (Exodus 19:16, 19;1 Thessalonians 4:16). This imagery connects to the theophany at Mount Sinai, where God's presence was accompanied by trumpet sounds. The voice's position "behind" John may indicate the unexpected nature of the revelation, drawing his attention to turn and see the source of the message.

1.John the Apostle
The author of the Book of Revelation, traditionally identified as John the Apostle, who was exiled on the island of Patmos when he received this revelation.

2.The Lord’s Day
This term is generally understood to refer to Sunday, the first day of the week, which early Christians observed in commemoration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection.

3.In the Spirit
This phrase indicates a state of spiritual vision or ecstasy, where John was enabled to receive divine revelation.

4.A Loud Voice Like a Trumpet
This symbolizes a clear and authoritative message from God, often associated with divine revelation or a call to attention.The Significance of the Lord’s Day
The Lord’s Day is a time set apart for worship and reflection on Christ’s resurrection. Christians are encouraged to honor this day as a time for spiritual renewal and community worship.

Being in the Spirit
Believers are called to seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Being "in the Spirit" involves prayer, meditation on Scripture, and openness to God’s leading.

Hearing God’s Voice
Just as John heard a loud voice, Christians should cultivate a sensitivity to God’s voice through Scripture, prayer, and the counsel of the Holy Spirit.

The Authority of God’s Revelation
The trumpet-like voice signifies the authority and clarity of God’s message. Believers should approach Scripture with reverence, recognizing its divine authority.1.What is the meaning of Revelation 1:10?

2.How does "in the Spirit on the Lord's Day" influence your Sunday worship?

3.What does "a loud voice like a trumpet" signify about God's communication?

4.How can Revelation 1:10 deepen your understanding of spiritual experiences?

5.Connect Revelation 1:10 with other biblical instances of being "in the Spirit."

6.How can you cultivate a mindset to hear God's voice in daily life?

7.What does "in the Spirit on the Lord's Day" mean in Revelation 1:10?

8.How does Revelation 1:10 define the "Lord's Day"?

9.Why is John "in the Spirit" significant in Revelation 1:10?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Revelation 1?

11.What is the significance of The Lord's Day?

12.What do Christian mystics believe and who are they?

13.What does the Bible say about time travel?

14.What are the days of the Christian calendar?On the Lord’s day

John sets the timing of his encounter on the day that uniquely belongs to the risen Christ. Early believers gathered on “the first day of the week” (Acts 20:7), the very day Jesus rose (Luke 24:1). By calling it “the Lord’s day,” John ties his vision to that weekly celebration of resurrection life and worship (1 Corinthians 16:2). Literally, in the middle of an ordinary Sunday devoted to honoring Jesus, the extraordinary breaks in.

• A day for remembering victory—“He has risen!” (Mark 16:9)

• A day for fellowship and breaking bread—Acts 20:7

• A day God chooses to unveil His plan—Revelation begins on the same day the church gathers to adore Christ.

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I was in the Spirit

John isn’t day-dreaming; he is seized by the Holy Spirit for prophetic revelation. Similar moments fill Scripture:

• Ezekiel records, “The Spirit entered me” (Ezekiel 2:2).

• Peter “fell into a trance” as God spoke (Acts 10:10–11).

• Later, John again says, “At once I was in the Spirit” (Revelation 4:2).

The phrase highlights a real, Spirit-empowered state in which God communicates infallibly (2 Peter 1:21). God initiates; John simply yields.

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and I heard behind me

The voice comes from behind, reminding us that revelation is received, not manufactured. Isaiah wrote, “Your ears will hear this command behind you” (Isaiah 30:21). Like a shepherd calling his sheep (John 10:27), the Lord directs John’s attention. He must turn to see, anchoring the vision in time and space. God leads; the servant responds.

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a loud voice like a trumpet

The voice’s volume and tone match Old Testament scenes where God’s presence thundered:

• Sinai shook with “a very loud trumpet blast” (Exodus 19:16).

• At Christ’s return “the Lord Himself will descend… with the trumpet call of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16).

• John later hears, “Come up here,” from a voice “like the sound of a trumpet” (Revelation 4:1).

A trumpet cuts through every distraction, gathers people, and signals authority. InRevelation 1, the risen Christ speaks with that same commanding clarity, preparing to unveil messages for His churches (Revelation 1:11).

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summary

On a literal Sunday set aside for worship, John is overtaken by the Holy Spirit. God calls from behind with a trumpet-like voice, capturing John’s full attention. The verse shows Jesus taking the initiative, using a day already devoted to Him, empowering His servant by the Spirit, and speaking with unmistakable authority. Revelation begins in worship, proceeds by the Spirit, and centers on the living voice of Christ.

(10)I was (or,I became)in the Spirit.--The mind, drawn onward by the contemplation of things spiritual, is abstracted from the immediate consciousness of outward earthly forms of life. In great natures this power is usually strong. Socrates is related to have stood rapt in thought for hours, and even days, unconscious of the midday heat, or the mocking wonder of his comrades. To high-souled men, set upon the spiritual welfare of the race, this power of detaching themselves from the influence of the outward is the result of their earnestness; the things spiritual are to them the real; the things seen are temporal. It is the Holy Spirit alone which can give the power of this spiritual abstraction; but it is through the ordinary use of means that this power is bestowed. In St. John's case it was on the Lord's Day that this spiritual rapture was vouchsafed.

The Lord's day.--There is no ground whatever for the futurist interpretation that this expression refers to the "Day of the Lord," as in2Thessalonians 2:2. The phrase in this latter passage is totally different. The phrase here is.en te kuriake hemera. The adjective is applied by St. Paul (perhaps coined by him for the purpose) to the Lord's Supper: from the Supper it came to be applied to the day on which Christians met for the breaking of bread. The day is still called??????? (kuriake) in the Levant. On the Lord's Day the vision came to the Apostle. It was the hour of sweetest, closest communion, when the memories of Christ risen, and the fellowship he had enjoyed at Ephesus, would work on his spirit, and aid in raising him in highest adoration, like St. Paul (2Corinthians 12:2-4). When so rapt, he heard a voice, strong, clear, and resonant as a trumpet. The Apostle's voice could not be heard among his beloved flock at Ephesus; but there was a voice which would reach from the exile at Patmos, not to Ephesus and its sister churches, but to all churches and throughout all time. The mouth which persecution closes God opens, and bids it speak to the world. So St. Paul, through the Epistles of his Captivity, still speaks. Luther, by his translation of the Bible, spoke from his confinement at Wartburg; and Bunyan, by his divine allegory, shows how feeble were the walls of his cell at Bedford to silence the voice of God. If speech be silver and silence golden, it is also true in the history of the Church that from the captivity of her teachers she has received her most abiding treasures.

Verse 10. -I was in the Spirit. I came to be (see on ver. 9) in a state of ecstasy capable of receiving revelations; likeγενέσθαι με ἐν ἐκστάσει (Acts 22:17; comp. 10:10;2 Corinthians 12:2-4).On the Lord's day. The expression occurs here only in the New Testament, and beyond all reasonable doubt it means "on Sunday." This is, therefore, the earliest use of the phrase in this sense. That it means Easter Day or Pentecost is baseless conjecture. The phrase had not yet become common in A.D. , as is shown from St. Paul writing, "on the first of the week" (1 Corinthians 16:2), the usual expression in the Gospels and Acts (Matthew 28:1;Mark 16:2;Luke 24:1;John 20:19;Acts 20:7; comp.Mark 16:9). But from Ignatius onwards, we have a complete chain of evidence thatἡ Κυριακή became the regular Christian name for the first day of the week; andΚυριακή is still the name of Sunday in the Levant. "No longer observing sabbaths, but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day" (Ign., 'Magn.,' 9.). Melito, Bishop of Sardis (A.D. 170), wrote a treatiseπερί Κυριακῆς (Eusebius, 'Hist. Eccl.,' IV. 26:2). Dionysius of Corinth (A.D. 175), in an epistle to the Romans, mentions that the Church of Corinth is that day keeping the Lord's holy day (Eusebius, 'Hist. Eccl.,' IV. 23:11). Comp. also Clem. Alex., 'Strom.,' VII. 12:98 (p. 377, Potter); Tertull., 'De Con.,' 3. and 'De Idol.,' 14, whereDominicus dies is obviously a translation ofΚυριακὴἡμέρα; and fragment 7 of the lost works of Irenaeus. That "the Lord's day" (ἡ Κυριακὴ ἡμέρα) in this place is the same as "the day of the Lord" (ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ Κυίου) is not at all probable. The context is quite against any such meaning as that St. John is spiritually transported to the day of judgment. ContrastRevelation 6:17;Revelation 16:14;1 John 4:17;John 6:39, 40, 44, 54;John 11:24;John 12:48. Whereas, seeing that the visions which follow are grouped in sevens (the seven candlesticks, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven vials), the fact that they begin on the first day of the seven is eminently appropriate.Great voice. The voice is evidently Christ's; but throughout the Apocalypse the speaker is frequently not named. By a construction common in Hebrew, "saying" agrees with "trumpet," the nearest substantive, instead of with "voice" (comp.Ezekiel 3:12;Matthew 24:31). "Therefore it is frombehind, for all the symbols and references are to be sought for in the Old Testament" (I. Williams); comp.Isaiah 30:21.

Parallel Commentaries ...


On
ἐν(en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722:In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ(tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588:The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Lord’s
κυριακῇ(kyriakē)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2960:Of the Lord, special to the Lord. From kurios; belonging to the Lord.

day
ἡμέρᾳ(hēmera)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250:A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

I was
ἐγενόμην(egenomēn)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1096:A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

in
ἐν(en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722:In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] Spirit,
Πνεύματι(Pneumati)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4151:Wind, breath, spirit.

and
καὶ(kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532:And, even, also, namely.

I heard
ἤκουσα(ēkousa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 191:To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

behind
ὀπίσω(opisō)
Preposition
Strong's 3694:Behind, after; back, backwards. From the same as opisthen with enclitic of direction; to the back, i.e. Aback.

me
μου(mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473:I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

a loud
μεγάλην(megalēn)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3173:Large, great, in the widest sense.

voice
φωνὴν(phōnēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5456:Probably akin to phaino through the idea of disclosure; a tone; by implication, an address, saying or language.

like
ὡς(hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613:Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

a trumpet,
σάλπιγγος(salpingos)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4536:A trumpet, the sound of a trumpet. Perhaps from salos; a trumpet.


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