“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and My servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider and believe Me
and understand that I am He.
Before Me no god was formed,
and after Me none will come. I, yes I, am the LORD,
and there is no Savior but Me.
Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
All mankind on earth are equals. We should only worship and pray to God. In Acts 10:25-26 Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said "I am only a man myself." Jesus Christ died on the cross, so we could all be equally close to God, praying and worshiping in the Spirit, directly to God, not having anything or anyone between us and God. To bow religiously before anyone on earth is taking away from God and false worship.
You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things. And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.
"You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God. You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. "When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger
God sent His one and only begotten Son to die for all, so that when we believe in Jesus Christ, all sin is washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ. Sometimes called the free gift of God.
Jesus Christ died for you, before He created you, because He knew that we needed His sacrifice to be cleansed of the sin of man, which came through Adam.
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.