Others believe that Yahshua was an angel (or malak) who led the children of Israyl out of Egypt.
What I want you to be clearly aware of, is when the Holy Scriptures speak of the children of Israyl being led out of Egypt and through the wilderness for forty years, they always say the malak or the malak of Yahweh, not just a malak (meaning any one of many malakim).
However, the Holy Scriptures also plainly show that Yahshua Messiah was not a malak.
Mattithyah 28:2—
For behold, there was a great earthquake; and the malak of Yahweh descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
The malak of Yahweh was the one who came and rolled back the stone from the sepulcher in which Yahshua lay. Yahshua is one Being, the malak of Yahweh is another being.
The malak who led the children of Israyl out of Egypt was the same malak of Yahweh who came and rolled back the stone to let Yahshua out of the sepulcher, so the malak most definitely could not have been Yahshua.
You might say now,"What does I Corinthians 10:4 from the King James Version mean?"
I Corinthians 10:1-4,KJV—
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ
Just to read I Corinthians 10:4, from the King James Version, one might believe that Yahshua Messiah was following right along behind the children of Israyl. However, I want you to understand that the malak of Yahweh led the children of Israyl, he did not follow them.
The word translated followed is word #190 in Strong's Greek Dictionary and means to be in the same way.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon shows us that the word followed properly means to walk the same road, to follow one who precedes, to follow one in time.
Yahshua Messiah followed the children of Israyl in history, hundreds of years later, at His first coming.
The same Greek word translated follow is found in the book of Revelation.
Revelations 14:4—
These are tthe ones who were not defiled with women; forbidden assemblies, for they are virgins, cleansed and pure. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men—the firstfruits to Yahweh and to the Lamb.
We know that the called out ones are not literally able to follow behind Yahshua, but we are able to walk the same road He walked. We are able to follow Him Who came before us, and we are able to practice the same way of life that Yahshua told us to live.
This is exactly what the Apostle Shaul meant when he was inspired to write I Corinthians 10:4. Now, notice what Yahweh inspired to be written in Hebrews.
Hebrews 1:4-5—
4 Becoming so much better than the malakim , He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent Name than they,
5 For example, to which of the malakim did He ever say: You are My Son, I, today, I have become your Father? And again: I Myself shall become His Father, and He Himself will become My Son?
According to the inspired Scriptures in the prophecies, Yahshua Messiah was never a malak of Yahweh, for He was the Son of Yahweh.
Yes, we know from the Scriptures that it was a malak who led the children of Israyl out of Egypt. It was the malak of Yahweh who led the children of Israyl, but it most certainly was not the Son of Yahweh Who did so.
Excerpt from Did Yahshua Messiah Pre-exist? By Yisrayl Hawkins