The preincarnate Christ often appears in the OT as “the Angel of the Lord.” One of the strangest occurrences of this is found in Judg 13:3-21. The Angel of the Lord appears, as a man, to a barren woman and tells her that she will give birth to a son. (The son is the famous OT character, Samson.) In answer to the prayer of Manoah—the woman’s husband—the Angel of the Lord returns