WHO IS “THE Angel of the Lord”?

Genesis 16:7 First Mention: the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, on the way to Shur. “The Genesis 16:10,13 Angel of Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that the Lord” they shall be too many to count.”… Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “Thou art a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?” Hagar Genesis 21:17-18 God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. “Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand; for I will make a great nation of him.”

Abraham Genesis 22:11-12 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” And he said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Genesis 22:15,17 Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Jacob Genesis 31:11-13 “Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ “And he said… I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’” Moses Exodus 3:2,4,6-8 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. And the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. “So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey Israel Exodus 14:19-20 And the angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night. Judges 2:1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, Judges 13:3, 6, 18, 22 Then the angel of the Lord appeared and said to her[Samson’s mother], “Behold now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son. . Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome.. . And I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name. But the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?” …So Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen God.”

The Angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them Ps 34:7