“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.”
Acts 10:15-16 KJV
The voice spoke again. “Nothing is unclean if God declares it to be clean.” The vision was repeated three times. Then suddenly the linen sheet was snatched back up into heaven. From this vision Peter understood that God has declared every human being to be of special worth and dignity. The entire world needs the Gospel. The four corners of the sheet are the four corners of our earth. The clean animals represent the Jews, God’s people, and the unclean animals to Peter, were the gentile nations. So Peter got the heavenly message that God was about to send him off with the men at the door of that house, even though they had been labelled “unclean” by the Jews. Three times the vision was given to Peter to understand the will of God, just as three times he denied Christ and three times Jesus restored Peter’s love for Christ! All of us disciples of Christ must be ready to receive visions from God that convey His will on earth and which jolt us out of our limited outlook! The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth to understand cryptic messages from God through visions. Amen!
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