SolaScriptura
Puritanboard Brimstone
One thing about "a lot of people" is that they know how to sound certain.
One thing that has always given me pause in the "is the angel of the Lord really Jesus" question is that "the Lord" or "the angel of the Lord" is consistently spoken of in the OT as being involved in the administration of the Law, but the NT consistently states that the Law was put in place by angels (Gal 3:19, Acts 7:53) and of course Heb 2 focuses on this in exquisite detail - and the point in the passage is that Jesus is superior to angels. Which means he's different from angels - specifically the angels who gave/revealed the Law.
By no means a slam dunk case, as there are compelling verses to be made implying that the Angel of the Lord is Jesus, and even in the OT passages the Angel of the Lord is (at least positionally) something other than a "normal" angel.
One thing that has always given me pause in the "is the angel of the Lord really Jesus" question is that "the Lord" or "the angel of the Lord" is consistently spoken of in the OT as being involved in the administration of the Law, but the NT consistently states that the Law was put in place by angels (Gal 3:19, Acts 7:53) and of course Heb 2 focuses on this in exquisite detail - and the point in the passage is that Jesus is superior to angels. Which means he's different from angels - specifically the angels who gave/revealed the Law.
By no means a slam dunk case, as there are compelling verses to be made implying that the Angel of the Lord is Jesus, and even in the OT passages the Angel of the Lord is (at least positionally) something other than a "normal" angel.