Rashi says:
The מלאך made a scratch on the wall and said that he will return the following year when the sun will be at the exact same spot and שרה will have a child.
The מלאכים visited אברהם the first day of פסח.
יצחק was born the following year on the first day of פסח.
The timing is off by 11 days!
It takes 365 days for the sun to return to the same spot. (solar year).
From פסח to פסח the following year is only 354 days.
When the sun returned to the same spot it was 11 days after Yitzchok’s birth.
The מלאך who promised to return was not the מבשר of Yitzchok’s birth. It was מלאך רפאל who promised to return 11 days after the birth.
It is written in the seforim that מלאך רפאל visits newborn boys 3 days after their Bris. (ג' למילתו) to heal them.
It was מלאך רפאל who scratched the wall and promised to return exactly on the day when the sun will be at the same spot 365 days later.
מלאך רפאל returned not for the birth but to heal יצחק three days after his ברית
יצחק was born 354 days after the מלאך made the scratch on the wall on the first day of פסח plus 8 days for the Bris and
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