[Destro]

images there represented veneration given to God who met His people in that earthly place.

and was not the Word made flesh?

[aardvark1]

I'm not sure I caught what your criptic comment was getting at but I'll respond to what I think you meant.

The Word was God. We worship, venerate, adore, honor, etc. Jesus Christ not because he is flesh but because he is God in the flesh. In Him is fullness of the Godhead bodily.