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Is there Scriptural Evidence for Worshipping Jesus Christ.

The book of Hebrews has an amazing account in its first chapter, verses 6 where in the original green NWT translation of the the New Testament it said: 

"For example, to which one of the angels did he ever say:  'You are my Son; today I have become your Father'? And again: 'I shall be a Father to him, and he will be a Son to me'?  But when he again brings his Firstborn into the inhabited earth, he says:  'And let all God's angels worship him." NWT (pre 1980 version)

In the Greek, the word is proskuneo. It means, worship: fall down and worship, kneel, bow low, obeisance. Obeisance means, "bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame.

So why the change? It is obvious that they tried to spin the word into something less worshipful.  They do not want their members worshipping the one whose name is higher than any other Philippians 2: 9

So this also destroys another false teaching of the Watchtower, that Jesus Christ is just an Angel and they even claim he is the Archangel Michael.  So if Jesus Christ is an angel, why would he Worship himself? The scripture states that ALL the angels WORSHIPPED HIM. 

There are also amazing accounts in Revelation where all the Angels and Saints (All true Born Again believers who have finished their earthly course) worship Father & Son before the throne day & night.  Here are the accounts:

Revelation 5: 1-14

"And I saw in the right hand of the One seated on the throne a scroll written on both sides, sealed tight with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. I gave way to a great deal of weeping because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. But one of the elders said to me: “Stop weeping. Look! The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered so as to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

And I saw standing in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a lamb that seemed to have been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, and the eyes mean the seven spirits of God that have been sent out into the whole earth. At once he came forward and took it out of the right hand of the One seated on the throne. When he (Jesus Christ) took the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb, and each one had a harp and golden bowls that were full of incense. (The incense means the prayers of the holy ones.) And they sing a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, for you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought people for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth.” 

 

And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, and they were saying with a loud voice: “The Lamb who was slaughtered is worthy to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all the things in them, saying: “To the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.” The four living creatures were saying: “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshipped. NWT

Revelation 4: 8-11

As for the four living creatures, each one of them had six wings; they were full of eyes all around and underneath. And continuously, day and night, they say: “Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah* God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.”

Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the One seated on the throne, the One who lives forever and ever, the 24 elders fall down before the One seated on the throne and worship the One who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying: “You are worthy, Jehovah (Kyrios) our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were created.” NWT

Notice how they put Jehovah in here and the Greek does not contain that word. Also note that it states that Jehovah created everything.  The    Aposle Paul in Colossians 1: 16,17 tells us that Jesus Christ created ALL things as the WORD or Logos. 

Col. 1:16-17, "because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exists." NWT  Notice how they sneak in the word [other] which is not in any other Bible. It is a way they try to get around, the fact that the Logos is literally God as he is the WORD spoken of in John 1:1 Read an excellent explanation of this here. 

The Watchtower also claim that only Jehovah God is the Alpha & Omega of Revelation chapter 1; So let us look at that chapter in their version:  

A Revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw.  Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it, for the appointed time is nearJohn to the seven congregations that are in the province of Asia: May you have undeserved kindness and peace from “the One who is and who was and who is coming,” and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,” “the firstborn from the dead,” and “the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” Tohim who loves us and who set us free from our sins by means of his own blood  and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen.  Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief because of him. Yes, Amen“I am the Alʹpha and the O·meʹga,” says [Jehovah God] (not in the Greek manuscripts), “the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.”  I John, your brother and a sharer with you in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in association with Jesus, was on the island called Patʹmos for speaking about God and bearing witness concerning Jesus.   By inspiration I came to be in the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a strong voice like that of a trumpet, saying “What you see, write in a scroll and send it to the seven congregations: in Ephʹe·sus, in Smyrʹna, in Perʹga·mum, in Thy·a·tiʹra, in Sarʹdis, in Philadelphia, and in La·o·di·ceʹa.” I turned to see who was speaking with me, and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,  and in the midst of the lampstands someone like a son of man, clothed in a garment that reached down to the feet and wearing a golden sash around his chest.  Moreover, his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame, and his feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.  And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp, long, two-edged sword was protruding, and his countenance was like the sun when it shines at its brightest.  When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. And he laid his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last (Alpah & Omega in Greek), and the living one, and I became dead, but look! I am living forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of the Grave. So write down the things you saw, and the things that are, and the things that will take place after these. As for the sacred secret of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars mean the angels of the seven congregations, and the seven lampstands mean the seven congregations.

Notice Jesus Christ is giving the Vision to John and then states in verse 17-18  that HE is the First & Last (Alpha & Omega) and he has the KEYS of Death and the Grave, because he DIED and is now the LIVING ONE FOREVER & FOREVER. 

This is the verse from their KIT Greek to English translation: 

Verse 8   "Εγώ I εἰμι am τὸ the Ἄλφα Alpha καὶ and τὸ the ῏Ω, Omega, λέγει is saying Κύριος, Lord, ὁ the θεός, God, ὁ The (one) ὢν being καὶ and ὁ the (one) ἦν was καὶ and ὁ the (one) ἐρχόμενος, coming, ὁ the παντοκράτωρ. Almighty".

The Biblical evidence is clear. The Lord Jesus Christ can and SHOULD be WORSHIPPED as he is the great I AM.