In Acts chapter 10, what was God telling Peter when he let down the sheet full of unclean animals and told?

Question

him to kill and eat them. This was a vision, but did God mean it literaly or symbolicly?

Answer 1

The chapter your referring to is what should be happening all over the world today.
The scripture ( Acts 10:11-48) was God's way of telling Peter ( and all concerned in this scripture ) that there is no race ( of people ) any better than the other. When God let down the sheet full of animals and reptiles and birds of every kind, He was " symbolically " telling Peter to go and " mingle " with other cultures, that nobody was any " gooder " than the other.
And that is what I meant in my opening statement! Hope this clarifies your post.
I have toexplain it more clearly after reading some of the answers.
A Jew by name of Cornelius was warned by God to send for Peter. Immediately after speaking with God, Peter had some men at his door sent by Cornelius to come and get him.
If you read further, verse 28 " And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. "
To simplify, Peter is saying that it is highly irregular for a Jew to associate with people of another race. He also said that God had shewed him what he was to do.
I would suggest for all to read the whole chapter to fully comprehend what message God is portraying.

Answer 2

Peter was apparently not too quick on the uptake. He had been told in no uncertain terms to go to the Gentiles after the Jews and Sumaritins but in the years that had elapsed from that instruction until the sheet hit the fan, i mean roof, he had not followed His directions. This was once again God telling Peter to go to the Gentiles and also thathe need no longer worry about the dietary restrictions because those made venturing into the Gentile world a difficult thing to do. See also Paul confronts Peter in Galations and the letter to the Gentiles Chap 15 Acts and also the counsel at Jeruhsalem just b4 the letter in Acts. These taken together tell it all. Alsoi Mat 16 about binding and loosing which gave the Apostles the power to execute the letter and the counsel decision.

Answer 3

what's the genuine meaning of Peter's ingenious and prescient of the sheet with unclean animals? Acts 10:11-14 bethy4je... remember that the pagans which replaced into called the Gentiles eat something however the Jewish human beings do no longer. The Jewish basically eat animal which they planned to be sparkling. this is the destingtion between the Jewish and the Pagan. one in all this Jewish replaced into Peter. Peter believed the salvation which replaced into Christ and His coaching replaced into basically belong to them the Jewish human beings. The Gentiles has no good of it. this is the clarification why God enable Peter dreamed with reference to the unclean animals which replaced into already made wiped sparkling meaning that the Salvation which replaced into Christ and His coaching must be carry forth to the Gentiles or Pagan u . s . a .. this suggests the Salvation is for all mankind. desire this enlighten you in any way.

Answer 4

Basically God was telling Peter the same thing he was saying to Jonah. All my children I love and there are none that I want to see without me. But further by the Christs' sacrifice.
Peters' vision said that the worship of God was open to all nations on the planet. All people; gentile and Hebrew were now brought together as one to the Holy God of Israel. What the Rabbi and the Hebrew thought of in tradition,worship, and sacrifice was now renewed in a second covenant (testament) with men. Only God could do this and Peter with the other Apostles were to accept that we gentiles are allowed to worship the Holy Father by the sacrifice of the Christ. We are all cleaned by His sacrifice by Gods' doing. The symbols were foods that no Hebrew would ever think of eating but God said I cleaned it so it is not dirty. The symbolic would indicate that we are cleaned by God as well as His chosen ones; we are not dirty.

Answer 5

He was saying to Peter, call not unclean anything I have made clean. It was symbolic that God had now said He had made previously forbidden food acceptable to eat. As Jesus said...it is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it.

Answer 6

He said he would not eat anything unclean. The customs of the Jews
God was revealing to him to go to the gentiles and preach his word
In that time he was only to preach to the jews
Read on my friend, read on.....

Answer 7

He meant it just like Jesus meant what He said in Mark 7:18 - 20. the clean and unclean foods laws were in place to separate israel from its idolatrous neighbours. since the new covenant was now in place, there was no need for that separation.

Answer 8

this is symbolic, the idea is that God made all things and no food is unclean for man to eat that God created.

Answer 9

well, He was referring to the Old Testament practice of only eating pure animals.....God was saying.....eat both "unclean" animals and clean animals....b/c God has made everything clean....