According to Biblical Unitarians who was seen walking in the fire with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
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Daniel describes two incidents in which people are saved from certain death:
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him …
— Daniel 3:28
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me …
— Daniel 6:22
In each case, it's explicitly stated that it was God's angel (mal'aḵ, מַלְאַךְ) that saved them from certain death.
What reason is there to suspect that a Unitarian would interpret this with anything other than the obvious meaning?
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Disclaimer: My view, as a non-Trinitarian, though it likely counts as "Unitarian," does not represent the "Unitarian Church" denomination.
The Bible teaches that God is invisible.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17, KJV)
It also teaches that God's Son Jesus was the image of this invisible God.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Colossians 1:15, KJV)
Between these two truths, we may safely conclude that it was not God whom the king observed in the fiery furnace.
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:18, KJV)
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12, KJV)
Those who believe the Son of God was actually God, instead of the Son of God, are the ones who may be hard-pressed to identify whom it was that Nebuchadnezzar saw, because the Bible quotes him referencing "the Son of God."
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. (Daniel 3:25, KJV)
Nebuchadnezzar is not recorded as claiming he had seen God. God was working on his heart, and he seems to have been inspired with an understanding of the truth in the midst of this dramatic event. He identified the fourth man in the fire as the Son of God.
Among those who seek ways of explaining this that would not have Nebuchadnezzar uttering such a sharp truth, the explanation is often given that he said "a son of the gods." (Some Bible translations actually render it this way.) They will claim that the king, being pagan, would not have known the true God, and would have been thinking of his own deities. However, the grammar does not lend itself to such a translation.
The phrase he actually used is: "בַר־אֱלָהִֽין", i.e. "bar-elahin"--a construct chain linking "son" with "God/god" in a possessive relationship, properly translated as "son of God/god" (Biblical languages do not have uppercase/lowercase distinctions). The word "elahin" is Aramaic for "elohim." In Aramaic, the definite article comes as an "-ah" suffix to the word--and it is notably absent here. Therefore, it cannot be properly translated as "the gods."
My Understanding
I believe the "Son of God" whom Nebuchadnezzar saw was the archangel Michael, the pre-incarnate Son of God who later spoke those words recorded by Paul in Hebrews 10:5 . . .
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (Hebrews 10:5, KJV)
He would have appeared to Nebuchadnezzar in the same manner he had appeared on prior occasions to others, such as to Abraham--as an angel of the LORD.
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