In Isaiah, chapter forty-nine, verse one, “Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.” The Messianic calling of Jesus Christ is pictured as being “from the womb,” as in Luke one, verses thirty-one to thirty-three, “And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.’
The Trinity or Godhead existed before the heavens and the earth came into existence. Genesis one, verse two and three, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” The Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit. Together, they were forming creation. The other point is in verse twenty-six, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” Who is God speaking of when
He mentions “Let us” and “after our likeness.” The theme title, “The Lord hath called me,” is under the Servant’s Call section. God could not be calling Himself, and the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, although referred to as the Third Person of the Trinity, then who is left? The Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ existed before He came in bodily form in the Old Testament, known as “the angel of the Lord.” The phrase “angel of the Lord” in Hebrew is translated as malak, which means “messenger.” This particular messenger is not just an angel, but the “angel of the Lord.” The messenger of Yahweh—or in Hebrew, malak Yahweh—is the only messenger who bears the name of Yahweh. In most cases when the phrase “the angel of the Lord” is used, the messenger is one who receives worship or has attributes of deity. Therefore, we can understand him as a preincarnate manifestation of the second Person of the Godhead, our Lord Jesus Christ.