Acts 10: Peter's Vision

Acts chapter 10 records a vision given to Peter in which a great sheet was lowered from Heaven containing a variety of animals Upon seeing this vision, he also heard a voice ordering him, “Rise Peter, kill and eat.” The accounts of this vision are often used as evidence to claim that Jesus abolished the Old Testament dietary laws outlined in Leviticus 11 and that all animals are now free to be eaten. However, a proper understanding of this vision can be gained by simply reading the entire chapter in context and allowing scripture to explain itself.

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[TakeOnTheWorldTV]

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[sam-and-angela]

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[Pursuingtorah]

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[kac]

In Acts 10, verse 9 the attention turns to Peter. Peter is on the roof praying when the Lord sends him a vision. In the vision he sees a large sheet coming down. In the sheet were all kinds of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice tells Peter to get up, kill, and eat. Peter responds that he will not because he has never eaten anything common or unclean (10:14). Now it is important to understand why Peter is saying no. God had given a law to his people that there were only certain animals they were allowed to eat. Those that they were allowed to eat were called clean and those they were not allowed to eat were called unclean. Look at what God declared under the Law of Moses.

Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine. (Leviticus 20:25–26 CSB)

What we see is Peter doing what this command says to do. He is not going to defile himself but wants to remain holy to the Lord. One way the people of Israel showed this was by eating differently. But listen to how God responds to Peter in verse 15. “What God has made clean, do not call impure.” Those animals were not to be considered unclean any longer. This happens to Peter three times to emphasize this point. But I want you to notice verse 17. Peter is perplexed by what the vision means. What I want us to see is that it is clear to Peter that the point is not about how the dietary laws of the Law of Moses have been erased. The vision is not about animals at all and Peter is trying to understand what this vision does mean.

[robertnieten]

Thank you for your video.
Pete vision on Acts ch.10 was about the Lord welcoming the gentiles into the family of God, but more specifically about Peters soon viisit to Cornelius and his guests whose messengers were approaching Peters' house as the vision unfolded.
There is what is known in biblical studies as The Law of Repetition. Based on this Law, the Law will repeat an event three times to set a precedent and to reveal an important spiritual truth.
Threr times the sheet was let down before Peter filled with the unclean animals. Peter was then told by the Lord to kill and eat. Upon Peters' reply that he had never eaten anything unclean, the Lord replied, " What God hath cleaned call not thou uncommon or unclean.
In the original Greek the word for " hath cleansed" is indicative meaning that it presently is not something that will be in the future.
The reason that the gentiles recieved the Holy Spirit before water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ is because through the remission of sins the temples of their bodies had already been cleansed of them, years before Peters' visit having been baptized by John in the Jordan river years before.
John baptized a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. Once the Lord shed his blood at Calvary those that had been baptized by John had their sins remitted right then.
My scriptural proof of this is: 1) Only the cleansing of the blood of Christ could have cleansed the temples of the gentiles' bodies sufficiently for the Holy Spirit to take up permanent residence within them.
2)The fact that they spoke in tongues proves that they had been baptized in the Spirit, which is being born of the Spirit.
3) The Holy Spirit will not take up permanent residence within an unclean temple. Under the old covenant, as the writer of Hebrews wrote, the blood of bulls and goats was insufficient when it came to removing consciousness of sins which is guilt.
Only the shed blood of Christ can accomplsh this so that the Holy Spirit could take up permanent residence in the body of the believer.
5) The reason that Peter ordered the gentiles to be rebaptized in the name of Jesus Christ is so that the spoken name if Jesus Christ would be spoken over them so that they could take on the " bridegrooms" name, much the same as when a bride. In the natural has the bridegrooms' name called over her during the wedding ceremony with the result of his name now becoming hers too.
Lastly, on Peters' return to Jerusalem after hiz vidit with the gentiles it was the other apostles that confronted him not the pharisees.( Acts 11:1, 15).

[jacobsamorodin]

Is there technology in Glory we do not have and do not understand yet? A great sheet lowered with living animals seen in it. I am NOT a skeptic, but the sheet reminds me of a motion-picture screen. They have that technology in Heaven? That screen Peter looked at displayed, moving, technicolor images, in three-dimensions (without special viewing glasses; technology we don't have yet on this sin-cursed world) of all sorts of animals that looked so real that one could almost reach out and touch one of those realist images, thus God commanding him, "Get up, Peter, slay and eat!" Peter must have thought he was looking at real animals somehow imbedded in a flat screen.

[anthonymoya]

If Peter ate with the gentles .
Then ask yourself what were the gentiles eating ??
You can't ask the gentiles to be circumcised.
But then tou want to tell them ehyat to eat.

[torahistruth]

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[sourmilkministries]

Shalom, my Torah keeping brother! I would respectfully contend that you have made a very common error that's prevalent in the Torah community. Simply stated, Peter never received any "contradictory instructions" from the Most High. Please consider watching our video entitled: _Video 8: Peter's Vision – What Torah Keepers get WRONG!_

[mattvmani]

While we have different opinions of the full interpretation my half would be God is showing that both food and coming to another nation was no longer unclean. There is no later reference of “kill and eat” and to pretend that that is simply absent doesn’t make sense nor does it make it “perfectly clear” this was only about people. Even prior to the vision it explicitly notes Peter went with hunger. You absolutely have the right to your own opinion and those that share it, I just don’t understand how those words and easily be ignored when it’s hunger addressing hunger and then you assume for it to only be about people when the larger picture for those of us that disagree is the relationship with all food and people had now changed. This being important because gatherings and food were a primary way of interaction in those days.

[luisrobertoamadeo]

This interpretation is contrary to the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles, and the rest of the Bible. So if the suggestion is that scripture explains itself, the rest of New Testament requires an interpretation contrary to this video.

[zytigon]

Acts 10v11 ReWrit :" And when Peter fell into a trance he saw a sheet like a flying carpet bearing potatoes in the form of chips & crisps, baked and boiled, also tomatoes, maize, strawberries, cocoa powder, vanilla, avocado, squash - pumpkin, cooked turkey meat. Peter asked, "What are these strange foods, i have never eaten the like ?" God said unto Peter, "These are some of the best foods that i have flown in from the continent of America, that lies over the pond, Take eat, enjoy !" And having sampled from the flying table cloth Peter exclaimed, "Wow, these are really tasty. Praise the Lord for he is good"