Was The Angel Of The LORD In The Old Testament Actually Jesus?

Q: Was the angel of the Lord seen in the Old Testament actually Jesus?

A: Yes, those were pre-incarnate appearances of the second person of the Trinity, God the Son. We know this because the Spirit, by His very nature, cannot be seen. We also know this because it is said of God the Father that no man has ever seen Him.

Therefore, if God has been manifest in some physical form, it is through the person of God the Son. This happened perfectly in the incarnation when Jesus was born, lived, walked among us, died on the cross as a sacrifice for sin, and rose gloriously and triumphantly from the dead.

We have these appearances in the Old Testament where God appears in some kind of human form. We regard those as pre-incarnate appearances of Jesus Christ.