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As the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray. It was about noon. Peter got hungry and started thinking about lunch. While lunch was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the skies open up. Something that looked like a huge blanket lowered by ropes at its four corners settled on the ground. Every kind of animal and reptile and bird you could think of was on it. Then a voice came: \u201cGo to it, Peter\u2014kill and eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPeter said, \u201cOh, no, Lord. I\u2019ve never so much as tasted food that was not kosher.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe voice came a second time: \u201cIf God says it\u2019s okay, it\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the skies. <\/p>\n

\tAs Peter, puzzled, sat there trying to figure out what it all meant, the men sent by Cornelius showed up at Simon\u2019s front door. They called in, asking if there was a Simon, also called Peter, staying there. Peter, lost in thought, didn\u2019t hear them, so the Spirit whispered to him, \u201cThree men are knocking at the door looking for you. Get down there and go with them. Don\u2019t ask any questions. I sent them to get you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPeter went down and said to the men, \u201cI think I\u2019m the man you\u2019re looking for. What\u2019s up?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThey said, \u201cCaptain Cornelius, a God-fearing man well-known for his fair play\u2014ask any Jew in this part of the country\u2014was commanded by a holy angel to get you and bring you to his house so he could hear what you had to say.\u201d Peter invited them in and made them feel at home. (Acts 10:9-23)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus sometimes spoke in parables, because a good story was like a picture: it was worth a thousand words. <\/p>\n

\tJesus appeared to Peter while he was waiting for his lunch. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Peter had a dream about food. But it was non-Kosher food. Jesus told him to eat it anyhow, not once but three times. <\/p>\n

\tJesus was not trying to give Peter new regulations about what was Kosher. Like most Jewish people, Peter believed that gentiles were excluded from the love of God, just as pigs were excluded from his plate. When Jesus told his disciples to take the gospel to the whole world, they thought he meant taking it to the Jewish people scattered throughout the Roman Empire. <\/p>\n

\tPeter\u2019s vision helped him, and the rest of the church, to realize that the gospel message was for all humanity, not just the Jews. No human being was unclean. God could make everyone holy. <\/p>\n

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