Hi Oldhermit
Bowing down in worship and calling Him Jehovah (Lord) and witnessing God did have grace of Abraham through a theophany would seem to indicate the opposite . He sent three angels of the Lord possibly to indicate a triune God. He addressed the three as Lord. Three is used many times in parables to indicate the end of a matter
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Gen 18:1
I do, its you that does not.
I would offer it must be a theophany the language could not support any thing but a theophany . Melchizedek a theophany came as a messenger of God who has no form as a representative glory, hidden from man. God does not accept worship according to form .He is supernatural without form .He sends messengers as an angel of the Lord like with Melchizedek, a theophany.
The messengers of the Lord comes in many forms to indicate certain aspects of the gospel . Melchizedek to represent the Spirit of Christ, the Holy annointing Spirit of God as our High Priest continually(no beginning)
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He appeared to represent his unseen glory as a fire that will consume His enemy in a fiery bush. .
Exo 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
He used a ass a unclean animal used in ceremonial laws to represent a unbeliever to show he is not served by human hands as a will/.
Num 22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
Num 22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Again using three to indicate the end of the matter
The angel of the Lord aprreared as a hand used to represent the will of God as the finger of God another form of theophany used to express the hidden glory of God . The angel of the Lord appeared in a vision as having a thousand eyes to represpent the hidden glory of the omni-presence of God.......who again has no form.
As the Son of man a vision would not do the the work needed for the demonstration... flesh typified as sinful flesh which did not profit it was needed to put away sin in the flesh. The Son of God (the Spirit of Christ) remains without mother or father beginning of Spirit life or end thereof . He abides our High priest continually.
Heb 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.