10 Lord's Day—Future
Lord’s Day—Future
Revelation 20:5 refers to the "Lord’s Day" which includes the Church of the bride and Bridegroom period, but not the Church as the body which has been "gathered together." But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. A synagogue in Nazareth was the location for Jesus’ first recorded message as given in Luke 4:16–21. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. [In reverence and respect for the Word of God the priest would stand while reading from the scrolls, and be seated while teaching.] And there was delivered unto him the book [scroll] of the prophet Esaias [Isaiah]. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Reading from the scroll of Isaiah, corresponding to our Isaiah 61:1, 2, Jesus Christ read only to the words "acceptable year of the Lord," and closing the scroll He said, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Jesus Christ did not continue to read the "day of vengeance of our God" from the scroll for then He could not have said, "This day is this scripture fulfilled." The "day of vengeance of our God" is still future, starting with the book of Revelation period. There are already almost two thousand years of the period of grace history, the great mystery administration represented by that little comma between the word "Lord" and "and" in Isaiah 61:2. Between "the acceptable year of the Lord" which was then, and "the day of vengeance of our God" which is future, is the administration of the great mystery. The Church as the body of Christ is awaiting His return to be gathered together unto Him who is the Head over all.