“Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat. I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth. “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Acts, 11:7-9
God, Himself set aside the dietary laws
Of course.
But Peter had to relate the story for posterity... and Paul confirmed.
This is just plain wrong. This vision came to Peter 14 years after Pentecost!
What took him so long? Didn’t he actually walk and live with Yeshua? He says “Nothing unclean has ever entered my mouth.” Peter was stunned and perplexed. But as he was trying to figure it out men came to invite him to the house of Cornelius. Peter goes there and teaches them Yeshua, and as he does the Ruach HaKodesh falls on them “as it did on us” (the Jews). And suddenly Peter and his astonished friends realize that “G-d is no respecter of persons, but every nation that works righteousness (i.e. Keeps Torah) is accepted by Him.” The vision was not about food! G-d was using the unimaginable idea of eating unclean food to break the ancient Jewish exclusion of Gentiles from the Covenant. The commandments are forever. Get used to it. Not one of them is going away.