The other day I was watching a Christian program on TV which really clarified for me what the difference is between something that is "Holy" and something that is "Common". The analogy that the speaker gave was this: God created our sun to have a "Common" purpose in our galaxy. However, if we should decide to worship the sun and make the sun holy - we would be committing idolatry because God did not create the sun for worship.
Let's apply this analogy to the 4th Commandment - to remember the 7th Day Sabbath and keep it holy. (See Exodus 20:10) God the Creater made the first day of the week for us to work. He created it as a "common" day. He did not create the first day of the week for worship! However, if we decide to make it a day of worship, (a holy day) - then we also are committing idolatry. We have just taken something God created as "Common" and we have made it "Holy" (set apart for worship)!
In Numbers 26:61 it says, "And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the Lord."
Leviticus 10:1-3 says, "Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. And Moses said to Aaron, 'This is what the Lord spoke, saying: "By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; and before all the people I must be glorified."
Worshipping on the first day of the week makes that a "profane worship day". Why? Because as the above verse states: God has not commanded us to worship on that day. But the opposite is also true when we take the 7th Day Sabbath (Saturday), which God has commanded us to keep holy - and we make it a "common/profane day"! We are now guilty of idolatry as well as disobedience to a holy God - and we think we can still ask God to "bless us"?
