God doesn't tell us NOT to use it either, so you can't say it is wrong to do so.
The heavenly worship, we know, is pleasing to God (for God has ordained it so). The Jews, too, worshiped this way (in conformity with the command of God in the OT). If Christ in heaven is glorified by incense, and God in the OT was glorified by incense, it isn't a great leap of academic wiz-bangery to imagine that God can be glorified by the use of incense.
And I will use any tool at my disposal to glorify God. Hence, I'll use incense that even my NOSE may glorify God.
And I disagree with your criteria (that only things explicitly commanded in Scripture are acceptable as worship).
And, as pointed out, the Apostles used incense (Temple worship and Synagogue worship). So did the early church.
So to imagine that the NT forbids it requires you to do the following:
1) Make an argument from silence (the absence of absolute, direct command being equated with a condemnation of the act)
2) Ignore places where Scripture ISN'T silent on incense, or use rationalization to dismiss those passages.
3) Ignore the way the Apostles worshipped
4) Ignore the way that those the Apostles TAUGHT worshipped. Or, alternatively, imagine that the Apostles were just really really bad teachers who failed to pass on even the most basic of principles to their disciples.
Of course not - we're physical / incarnate; they are not. However, that just makes the case STRONGER for the use of incense. It is used in heavenly worship, but we (unlike angels) have noses and eyes. The symbolic meaning is MORE profound to us.
Indeed - because Christ became Incarnate, we know He redeemed the very physical matter of creation. God cannot change, and God is good, so when God becomes material the material realm must, by this incredible act, be good. Incense, as ALL worship should, takes a part of this physical and material world and offers it to God.
HOW can that be bad? How can it be bad to bring yet another thing into the constraints of the Kingdom and into the worship of God?
I just don't understand why it is bad. It shows up all over Scripture, serves a viable purpose symbolically, involves an underused sense in the worship of God (smell)... Heck it even can be justified just as a way to beautify the service for the glory of God.
ALL of creation groans in anticipation of Christ's salvation.
If you continue reading Revelations, you'll see that those up there worship God a lot differently than we do.
Quite differently than YOU do. Our worship is designed to BE the heavenly worship on as many levels as possible.
You keep saying this. Then using the great cop-out "just go read the NT." I've read it in several translations and several times with several different commentaries. I've read it using lectio-devina (as prayer); I've read it using academic historical-critical exegesis (as a study); I've read it with Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Patristic commentaries.
I never once found a neatly laid-out guide / outline of a worship service. Not once. NEVER does it say "Go and worship God in this way" EXCEPT in terms of the heart-attitude of the worshippers (i.e. Spirit and Truth).
So, if you'd care to enlighten me, I'm all ears.
But remember that for ANY passage you use to INFER worship (that isn't a direct command) you'll have justified my church's use of incense (since we infer that from its use throughout the OT and NT).