The Belgic Confession, Article IX (3)

Proof from the Old Testament (continued) This Angel of Jehovah makes his appearance at various crucial times in the history of God's people of the old dispensation. He appears again in connection with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the salvation of Lot. Thus Abraham recognizes Him, first of all, when the three heavenly visitors come to him in the plains of Mamre. For when "the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom, . . . Abraham stood yet before the Lord," and to...