I pray that this post speaks to whomever it needs to, in the name of the LORD and SAVIOR Jesus Christ.

My aim with this post is to re-examine the Judaic belief that GOD cannot appear as a man (as if one can put restrictions on what GOD can or cannot do, as if the LORD declared in HIS Holy Word that HE cannot appear as a man — quite the opposite! One thing is for certain, as the LORD tells us, HE cannot lie).

I seek to examine this ‘person,’ the Angel of the LORD as presented to us in the Holy Bible, by using the Tanakh, of course, and only the Tanakh. I do, however, cast the Tanakh translations against a so-called Christian translation (NKJV) to provide a basis for where this post is going. All Bible verses listed are as they appear in the The Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS); the links go to the NKJV translation.

I ask – If this ‘angel of the LORD’ speaks as GOD and people, as shown in the Tanakh, react to him as GOD, then isn’t it quite possible that the LORD was showing that yes, it is indeed possible for HIM to literally physically appear as a man and still remain divine? Since no man can see GOD’s face and live, isn’t it possible that HE makes a way for us to behold HIM visually without being overwhelmed with HIS glory, or having to die (seeing how sinful we are)?

• The Angel of the LORD: the heavenly messenger whose presence is evidence of GOD HIMSELF (Thomas-Nelson concordance)
  

The LORD recently revealed an area of HIS Holy Scriptures to me, leading me to question, again, the choice of translations and wording in the Jewish Tanakh.

In the so-called Christian translation of the Holy Bible, all throughout the Old Testament we read of the ‘Angel of the LORD’, while in the Tanakh we read of ‘an angel of the LORD.’ This is notable because the so-called Christian translation acknowledges the importance of this Angel of the LORD… HE is no ‘ordinary’ angel, if you will. While in the Tanakh, although HIS importance cannot be veiled due to what HE declares and does, the translators seem to refuse to acknowledge that this is not just ‘an angel’ but a very specific angel.

Just as the ‘Commander of the Army of the LORD’ (NKJV) or the ‘captain of the LORD’s host’ (Tanakh) is very much a specific angel, so is the Angel of the LORD. And we know these two are not like the other angels, like Michael or Gabriel, for example. For these two demand reverence, unlike the other angels — who never speak as GOD or demand reverence, as the Angel of the LORD does.