A really good friend pointed me to this discussion. They weren't sure what to think of this discussion. But I get a sense that some of the members here have a problem with pride and arrogance when it comes to being submissive before YHVH. To say that YHVH doesn't want us to submit to His will and to bow down before Him is preposterous and arrogant.
Tiffany FF was dead wrong when he gave his interpretation of fear. Fearing YHVH does not mean we have to cower in His presence like we as Americans think of fear. It simply means to hold him in reverance and high respect. We have to understand that He holds our future in His hands (figuratively speaking). That creates reverence for Him. Yochanon, in the Brit Chadashah says that perfect love casts away fear as in anxiety at ones presence.
On the other hand; YHVH DEMANDS us to bow before him. The evidence is in the scriptures if we will but take the time to learn what they really say. Not necessarily what they have been translated to say.
Here are the words used in the KJV for worship*
H7812 Found 171 times in 165 verses
shâchâh shaw-khaw'
A primitive root; to depress, that is, prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or Elohim): - bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
H6915 Found 15 times in 15 Verses
qâdad kaw-dad'
A primitive root; to shrivel up, that is, contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference: - bow (down) (the) head, stoop.
H3766 Found 37 times in 33 verses
ka-ra‛ kaw-rah' A primitive root; to bend the knee; by implication to sink, to prostrate: - bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, X very.
H1288 Found 332 times in 291 verses
baw-rak'
A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless Elohim (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (Elohim or the king, as treason): - X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
H5647 Found 288 times in 261 verses
‛a-bad aw-bad'
A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.: - X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour (-ing man), bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve (-ing, self), (be, become) servant (-s), do (use) service, till (-er), transgress [from margin], (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper.
H5457 Found 12 times in 11 verses
segid seg-eed'
(Chaldee); corresponding to H5456: - worship.
H5456 Found 4 times in 4 verses
sâgad
saw-gad'
A primitive root; to prostrate oneself (in homage): - fall down.
H1289 Found 5 times in 5 verses
berak ber-ak'
(Chaldee); corresponding to H1288: - bless, kneel.
H6087 Found 17 times in 17 verses
‛a-tsab aw-tsab'
A primitive root; properly to carve, that is, fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger: - displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
One very significant verse in the Tanach is in Psalm/Tehillim 95
(Psa 95:6) O come,935 let us worship7812 and bow down:3766 let us kneel1288 before6440 YHVH3068 our maker.6213
Can't get much plainer than that.
And then in the Brit Chadashah we read this:
Wherefore1352 YHVH2316 also2532 hath highly exalted5251 him,846 and2532 given5483 him846 a name3686 which3588 is above5228 every3956 name:3686 That2443 at1722 the3588 name3686 of Yahoshua2424 every3956 knee1119 should bow,2578 of things in heaven,2032 and2532 things in earth,1919 and2532 things under the earth;2709 And2532 that every3956 tongue1100 should confess1843 that3754 Yahoshua2424 haMoshiach5547 is ADON,2962 to1519 the glory1391 of El2316 the Father.3962
(Phi 2:9-11)
I left the Strong's numbers in for your help in researching the meanings of the words. Even though Strong's is a very basic study tool. There are much more thorough references available.
So you see FF and YADA, it is not a question of whether you are to bow before YHVH. You will bow before HIM. Of that there is no doubt. The question is whether you will do it now while you can benefit. Or after death when you stand before a JUST Elohim.