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.

Using AI to give ourselves superpowers?

 

The king of titans lays the smackdown on all comers.

 

Matthew Henry re: Daniel ch.10:10-21

"10:10-21 Whenever we enter into communion with God, it becomes us to have a due sense of the infinite distance between us and the holy God. How shall we, that are dust and ashes, speak to the Lord of glory? Nothing is more likely, nothing more effectual to revive the drooping spirits of the saints, than to be assured of God's love to them. From the very first day we begin to look toward God in a way of duty, he is ready to meet us in the way of mercy. Thus ready is God to hear prayer. When the angel had told the prophet of the things to come, he was to return, and oppose the decrees of the Persian kings against the Jews. The angels are employed as God's ministering servants, Heb 1:14. Though much was done against the Jews by the kings of Persia, God permitting it, much more mischief would have been done if God had not prevented it. He would now more fully show what were God's purposes, of which the prophecies form an outline; and we are concerned to study what is written in these Scriptures of truth, for they belong to our everlasting peace. While Satan and his angels, and evil counsellors, excite princes to mischief against the church, we may rejoice that Christ our Prince, and all his mighty angels, act against our enemies; but we ought not to expect many to favour us in this evil world. Yet the whole counsel of God shall be established; and let each one pray, Lord Jesus, be our righteousness now, and thou wilt be our everlasting confidence, through life, in death, at the day of judgment, and for evermore."

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/mhcw/daniel/10.htm

John Calvin in his own words on Michael the great prince.

"On Daniel 10:13:

“He adds next, Behold! Michael, one of the chief leaders or princes, came to strengthen me. Some think the word Michael represents Christ, and I do not object to this opinion.”

Criticism of Misinterpretation

 (Daniel 12:1):

“That foul hypocrite, Servetus, has dared to appropriate this passage to himself; for he has inscribed it as a frontispiece on his horrible comments, because he was called Michael! … But this was a proof of his impudence and sacrilegious madness — to adorn himself with this epithet of Christ without blushing, and to elevate himself into Christ’s place, by boasting himself to be Michael, the guardian of the Church, and the mighty prince of the people!

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom25.vii.i.html

https://ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom25/calcom25.v.xiv.html

I found this pair of quotes from protestant reformer John calvin most interesting.

GROK quotes tertullian on the seventy weeks of the book of Daniel.

 Tertullian discusses the seventy weeks prophecy from Daniel 9:24-27, arguing it was fulfilled in the coming of Christ. Here is the relevant quote from Chapter VIII:against the Jews.

"For the prophet Daniel, in the vision of the seventy weeks, speaks thus: 'Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to wipe out iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies; and thou shalt know and understand, from the going forth of the word to answer and to build Jerusalem, unto Christ the Leader, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks.' Now, from the going forth of the word to rebuild Jerusalem, which was given through Cyrus, king of the Persians, unto the advent of Christ, are computed seventy weeks, which make four hundred and ninety years, since each week contains seven years. In these weeks, therefore, Christ came and suffered, and the city was destroyed, and the sacrifices ceased."

This passage reflects Tertullian’s interpretation that the seventy weeks (490 years) prophesied by Daniel were fulfilled with the coming of Christ, His death, and the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem."

Note the use of the day for a year formula in calculating prophetic time.