Wahyu 19:10

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Maka tersungkurlah aku di depan kakinya untuk menyembah dia, tetapi ia berkata kepadaku: "Janganlah berbuat demikian! Aku adalah hamba, sama dengan engkau dan saudara-saudaramu, yang memiliki kesaksian Yesus. Sembahlah Allah! Karena kesaksian Yesus adalah roh nubuat."

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Maka tersungkurlah aku di depan kakinya untuk menyembah dia, tetapi ia berkata kepadaku: "Janganlah berbuat demikian! Aku adalah hamba, sama dengan engkau dan saudara-saudaramu, yang memiliki kesaksian Yesus. Sembahlah Allah! Karena kesaksian Yesus adalah roh nubuat."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I fell: Revelation 22:8, Revelation 22:9, Mark 5:22, Mark 7:25, Acts 10:25, Acts 10:26, Acts 14:11-15, 1 John 5:21

See: 2 Corinthians 8:7, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, Hebrews 12:25

I am: Psalms 103:20, Psalms 103:21, Daniel 7:10, Luke 1:19, Hebrews 1:14

the testimony: Revelation 1:9, Revelation 12:11, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 22:9, 1 John 5:10

worship: Revelation 4:10, Revelation 14:7, Revelation 15:4, Exodus 34:14, 2 Kings 17:36, Psalms 45:11, Matthew 4:10, John 4:22-24, Philippians 3:3

for the: Luke 24:25-27, Luke 24:44, John 5:39, Acts 3:12-18, Acts 10:43, Acts 13:27, Romans 3:21, Romans 3:22, 1 Peter 1:10-12, 2 Peter 1:19-21

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:3 - General Joshua 5:14 - fell on his Psalms 19:7 - testimony Psalms 40:7 - in the Psalms 119:129 - testimonies Song of Solomon 2:9 - showing Song of Solomon 8:2 - who Isaiah 8:16 - the testimony Jeremiah 33:14 - General Daniel 2:46 - fell Daniel 8:17 - I was Zechariah 1:9 - the angel Matthew 2:11 - worshipped Matthew 4:9 - if Matthew 8:2 - worshipped Matthew 22:30 - as Matthew 23:8 - all Matthew 26:39 - and fell Mark 9:4 - appeared Luke 1:70 - spake Luke 4:8 - for Luke 17:16 - fell Luke 24:27 - and all John 12:41 - spake John 16:14 - for Acts 3:18 - those Acts 7:52 - which showed Acts 14:15 - of like Acts 24:14 - believing Romans 1:4 - according Romans 16:26 - and by 1 Corinthians 1:6 - the 1 Corinthians 2:1 - the testimony Galatians 4:6 - the Spirit Philippians 1:1 - the servants Colossians 2:18 - worshipping Colossians 3:16 - the word 2 Timothy 1:8 - the testimony 2 Timothy 3:15 - which Hebrews 10:15 - General 1 Peter 1:11 - the Spirit 1 Peter 3:19 - By which 2 Peter 1:21 - spake 2 Peter 3:2 - ye may Revelation 6:9 - slain Revelation 11:3 - they shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I fell at his feet to worship him,.... Being transported with the news he brought him of the marriage, or conversion of his countrymen the Jews, and struck with reverence and awe of the glory and majesty in which the angel appeared to him; and forgetting himself, that worship was only due to God, he behaved in this manner; which is not to be excused nor justified, as appears from the angel's words:

and he said unto me, see thou do it not; the words are in the original very short and concise, and are spoken in an abrupt manner, and in great haste; as fearing he would be guilty of idolatry, before he could speak all his mind, and use the arguments that were necessary to dissuade from it:

I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; if this was one of the ministering spirits, he was a servant of the same Lord as John; and if he was a minister of the Gospel, he was still more literally a fellow servant of his, and of the apostles, and preachers of the Gospel; which is meant by the testimony of Jesus, that bearing testimony to the person, office, grace, obedience, sufferings, and death of Christ, and the glory following; and therefore being but a servant, and a servant in common with John and his brethren, was by no means to be worshipped; not the servant, but master; not the creature, but the Creator:

worship God and him only, even God the Father, Son, and Spirit; not the Father to the exclusion of the Son, the firstborn, whom all the angels are called upon to worship; nor of the Spirit, who is equally joined with the Father and Son in baptism, a part of religious worship, and in other parts of it also; but this excludes all creatures, angels, and men, things animate or inanimate, and images of them; the worshipping of which will now be no more, or at least will be quickly at an end.

For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy that is, the testimony of Jesus, or the Gospel which John and his brethren had, is the very spirit, life, and soul of the prophecy of this book; for as all the prophets bore witness to Christ, so does the Spirit of God in this; or the testimony which they had, and bore to Christ, was equal to the spirit of prophecy with which this angel was endowed; so that he and they were upon an equal foot; and he was no more a proper object of divine and religious adoration than they were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I fell at his feet to worship him - At the feet of the angel. See the notes on Revelation 19:9. This is a common posture of adoration in the East. See Rosenmuller’s “Morgenland, in loco.” notes on 1 Corinthians 14:25. John was entirely overcome with the majesty of the heavenly messenger, and with the amazing truths that he had disclosed to him, and in the overflowing of his feelings he fell upon the earth in the posture of adoration. Or it may be that he mistook the rank of him who addressed him, and supposed that he was the Messiah whom he had been accustomed to worship, and who had first Revelation 1:0 appeared to him. If so, his error was soon corrected. He was told by the angel himself who made these communications that he had no claims to such homage, and that the praise which he offered him should be rendered to God alone. It should be observed that there is not the slightest intimation that this was the Messiah himself, and consequently this does not contain any evidence that it would be improper to worship him. The only fair conclusion from the passage is, that it is wrong to offer religious homage to an angel.

And he said unto me, See thou do it not - That is, in rendering the homage which you propose to me, you would in fact render it to a creature. This may be regarded as an admonition to be careful in our worship; not to allow our feelings to overcome us; and not to render that homage to a creature which is due to God alone. Of course, this would prohibit the worship of the Virgin Mary, and of any of the saints, and all that homage rendered to a created being which is due to God only. Nothing is more carefully guarded in the Bible than the purity and simplicity of worship; nothing is more sternly rebuked than idolatry; nothing is more contrary to the divine law than rendering in any way that homage to a creature which belongs of right to the Creator. It was necessary to guard even John, the beloved disciple, on that subject; how much more needful, therefore, is it to guard the church at large from the dangers to which it is liable.

I am thy fellow-servant - Evidently this was an angel, and yet he here speaks of himself as a “fellow-servant” of John. That is, he was engaged in the service of the same God; he was endeavoring to advance the same cause, and to honor the same Redeemer. The sentiment is, that in promoting religion in the world, we are associated with angels. It is no condescension in them to be engaged in the service of the Redeemer, though it seems to be condescension for them to be associated with us in anything; it constitutes no ground of merit in us to be engaged in the service of the Redeemer (compare Luke 17:10), though we may regard it as an honor to be associated with the angels, and it may raise us in conscious dignity to feel that we are united with them.

And of thy brethren - Of other Christians; for all are engaged in the same work.

That have the testimony of Jesus - Who are witnesses for the Saviour. It is possible that there may be here a particular reference to those who were engaged in preaching the gospel, though the language will apply to all who give their testimony to the value of the gospel by consistent lives.

Worship God - He is the only proper object of worship; he alone is to be adored.

For the testimony of Jesus - The meaning here seems to be, that this angel, and John, and their fellow-servants, were all engaged in the same work that of bearing their testimony to Jesus. Thus, in this respect, they were on a level, and one of them should not worship another, but all should unite in the common worship of God. No one in this work, though an angel, could have such a pre-eminence that it would be proper to render the homage to him which was due to God alone. There could be but one being whom it was proper to worship, and they who were engaged in simply bearing testimony to the work of the Saviour should not worship one another.

Is the spirit of prophecy - The design of prophecy is to bear testimony to Jesus. The language does not mean, of course, that this is the only design of prophecy, but that this is its great and ultimate end. The word “prophecy” here seems to be used in the large sense in which it is often employed in the New Testament - meaning to make known the divine will (see the notes on Romans 12:6), and the primary reference here would seem to be to the preachers and teachers of the New Testament. The sense is, that their grand business is to bear testimony to the Saviour. They are all - whether angels, apostles, or ordinary teachers - appointed for this, and therefore should regard themselves as “fellow-servants.” The design of the angel in this seems to have been, to state to John what was his own specific business in the communications which he made, and then to state a universal truth applicable to all ministers of the gospel, that they were engaged in the same work, and that no one of them should claim adoration from others. Thus understood, this passage has no direct reference to the prophecies of the Old Testament, and teaches nothing in regard to their design, though it is in fact undoubtedly true that their grand and leading object was to bear testimony to the future Messiah. But this passage will not justify the attempt so often made to “find Christ” everywhere in the prophecies of the Old Testament, or justify the many forced and unnatural interpretations by which the prophecies are often applied to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 19:10. I fell at his feet to worship him. — Great as this angel was, St. John could not mistake him either for Jesus Christ, or for God the Father; nor was his prostration intended as an act of religious worship. It was merely an act of that sort of reverence which any Asiatic would pay to a superior. His mistake was, the considering that he was under obligation to the angel for the information which he had now received. This mistake the angel very properly corrects, showing him that it was from God alone this intelligence came, and that to him alone the praise was due.

I am thy fellow servant — No higher in dignity than thyself; employed by the same God, on the same errand, and with the same testimony; and therefore not entitled to thy prostration: worship God-prostrate thyself to him, and to him give thanks.

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. — As this is a reason given by the angel why he should not worship him, the meaning must be this: I, who have received this spirit of prophecy, am not superior to thee who hast received the testimony of Christ, to preach him among the Gentiles; for the commission containing such a testimony is equal to the gift of the spirit of prophecy. Or, the spirit of prophecy is a general testimony concerning Jesus, for he is the scope and design of the whole Scripture; to him gave all the prophets witness. Take Jesus, his grace, Spirit, and religion out of the Bible, and it has neither scope, design, object, nor end.