By Ron Webster
The eating of any unclean flesh as detailed in Leviticus chapter eleven and Deuteronomy chapter fifteen is very clear. Some argue that the New Testament gives us complete freedom to eat more or less what we like, based upon Peter’s experience in Acts chapter ten where Peter had this vision of a sheet filled with “all manner of four footed 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 anything 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. Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean.”
We should also ask; What does this mean? Most conclude first that God said He had cleansed all common and unclean animals. He did not say that! He said “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” While Peter was contemplating the meaning, God gave him the answer. “Behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry from Simon’s house, and stood before the gate, and called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there. ...
