Sorry, but the vision had everything in the world to do with eating what was previously considered unclean foods.
When the Lord chose a method to communicate with Peter that, that which had always been unclean to him, the Gentiles, was no longer unclean, He used an example that Peter could understand, he told him to eat unclean animals, and this certainly got Peters attention.
Peter said, “not so Lord for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.” The Lord made him go through this three times, then it ended.
Then Peter found out there were Gentiles coming to see him, and that he was to go doubting nothing Peter had to be saying to him self, Gentiles unclean, animals unclean, what’s God trying to tell me?
The Lord told me it was alright to eat unclean animals if He has cleansed them. How could the Lord just cause unclean animals suddenly become clean after they’ve been unclean for over 1500 years?
How is it possible that I’m to go with Gentiles after they’ve been unclean equally as long as the animals?
Then the Lords words came to Peter, “ What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”
Peter realized that the Gentiles, and unclean animals, were not unclean in and of them selves, but they were unclean because God had declared them unclean. Since something became unclean by Gods words, then Gods words could just as easily reverse the condition.
Peter could now socialize with those of an unclean nation, or eat animals he had always considered unclean, by Gods simple pronouncement that they were no longer unclean.
This whole story was about God being able to declare something clean or unclean by His word.
When Peter retold the story of the vision and the harvest of souls he reaped at Cornelius' home, he never mentioned that it the vision meant it was ok to eat unclean meat,
The Jews weren’t ready for this knowledge, but God did it in a way that it was right there in front of nose if they had been able to accept it.
Acts 11:2-3 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,* saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
I always chuckle when I read this, Peters friends are saying, (my paraphrase) You were there four days, in the same house with those uncircumcised Gentiles, and not that that’s not bad enough, you even ate with them. :)
What did a kosher Jew eat for three or more days in a non-kosher Gentile home?
I’ll bet he had his first taste of eggs and bacon. Lol
Yeshua's death on the cross didn't change the definition of sin, it took away the penalty of sin.
And the definition of clean and unclean was changed when God said “ What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”
Note God didn’t specify man, he said “that call not unclean”.
Why would God tell Peter to eat unclean meat, then tell him to fellowship with unclean men, then take back the fact he had told Peter to eat unclean animals.
There is no where in the NT that God changes his command to Peter to eat of the unclean animals. The command still stands.
Tamar, give me your understanding of a passage in Deut.
Deut 14:21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Why did God tell the Israelites not to eat animals that had become unclean by a natural death, but it was alright for them to give or sell these unclean animals to the alien/Gentiles?
Did God hate the alien/stranger/Gentile, and want them to get sick when they ate the unclean meat?
JH :)
Considering that Peter himself said the vision had NOTHING to do with Kashrut, I will take his interpretation over yours any day.