Not so fast!

 

The word rendered worship is "proskuneo" and while JEHOVAH  receives absolute proskuneo/worship the bible clearly shows that holy messengers of God both human and superhuman can also lawfully receive a kind relative proskuneo/worship for instance,

Daniel ch.2:46KJV"Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and WORSHIPPED Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him."

1Chronicles 29:20KJV"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."

Note that king David is worshiped alongside the Lord JEHOVAH

What about this:

Luke ch.4:8KJV"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the LORD thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."

To help us reason scripturally on this matter lets consider another caution Jesus gave us.

Matthew ch.23:9,10NIV"And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah."

A careless investigator of God's word might conclude that Paul is in violation of Jesus's command based on such texts as:

  Romans ch.4:1NKJV"What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?"

1corinthians ch.4:15NIV"Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel."

Clearly our Lord was cautioning against the use of honorific titles especially those that might obscure JEHOVAH'S Unique fatherhood and Christ's unique teaching authority

So JEHOVAH Recieves absolute worship but his divinely appointed and empowered prophet can also lawfully receive relative worship out of regard for the God who selected and empowered him see Daniel ch.2:46 but Luke ch.4:8b uses the Greek word Latreo only the God and Father of Jesus is ever depicted as receiving Latreo in the Holy scriptures and no one else, so it is interesting that Jesus takes pains to spell out that only the Lord JEHOVAH is entitled to this absolutely sacred form of worship.