I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet — the phrase "in the Spirit" (en pneumati) indicates a prophetic trance or ecstatic state where John receives visions, a mode of prophecy familiar from Ezekiel and the apostolic letters. The "Lord's Day" (kyriakē hēmera) is Sunday, the day of resurrection worship, establishing that Christian eschatological hope centers not on Jewish Sabbath but on Christ's victory.

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