Lesson 3641

 (Lesson 3641)(12-24-21) Acts 9-16

    “On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.”

    Today’s quote relates that God, knowing how Peter, a devout Jew, would resist going to the home of a Gentile because they were, in his mind, considered unclean, sent a vision to Peter demonstrating that nothing made by the will of God was to be considered unclean.

    Today’s Jews still adhere the to old law and will not eat certain foods.~