Worship

It's ok to receive worship, especially if you are Yahweh God's anointed. Both David and Saul, as well as Jesus received worship. Even believers are worshipped in revelation. does that make you God almighty? Angels, pagan leaders, Jacobs older brother, Joseph, Boaz, Jonathan were all worshipped.

Revelation 3:9 (KJV)  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

1 Chronicles 29:20 (KJV)  And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

1 Samuel 24:8 (KJV)  David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.

1 Samuel 25:23-24 (KJV)  And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
And fell at his feet....

1 Kings 1:31 (KJV)  Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Genesis 23:7 (KJV) And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to [worshipped] the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

Genesis 19:1 (KJV) And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself [worshipped] with his face toward the ground;

Genesis 33:3 (KJV) And he passed over before them, and bowed himself [worshipped] to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 43:26 (KJV) And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves [worshipped] to him to the earth.

Joshua 5:14 (KJV) And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

Ruth 2:10 (KJV) Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground [worshipped], and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

1 Samuel 20:41 (KJV) And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground [worshipped], and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

Matthew 8:2 (KJV)  And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

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There's no difference between these worship events. It's the same word used of David, Saul (in the Greek OT LXX) and Jesus in the NT.

Many bible versions simply translate it to say the leper knelt before Jesus. He certainly didn't worship him as God. All the Jews knew that God is not a man.

4352. proskuneó ►
Strong's Concordance
proskuneó: to do reverence to
Original Word: προσκυνέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: proskuneó
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-koo-neh'-o)
Definition: to do reverence to
Usage: I go down on my knees to, do obeisance to, worship.

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Jesus has been exalted to God's right hand. Of course he's going to get a special kind of worship more than any man. He's the name above all names. He's not worshipped as God though. That's reserved for Yahweh God almighty alone. Everything is done ultimately to the glory of the one true God.

Philippians 2:9-11 (KJV)  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.