meat feast! what is a clean and unclean animal? Sam Shamoun

why is it if God created all things I'll make the question more specific he created Pig he created all these animals and what he created everything was good right if you read Genesis 1 vers 1- 31 everything you created was good right yes that means the pig by its very nature can't be bad right because God created the pig right yes so that means if God created the pig then he created it good that's Genesis 1: 1-31 everything he created he saw and it was very good so did he create pigs on the sixth day

yes so if he created them that means he created them good right absolutely yes brother so there cannot be an animal or an insect that was created Bad Evil because nothing from the hand of God can be bad that means everything was created good everything was pure everything was clean so then later on after the fall God then tells Israel all right well these are animals you eat animals you don't eat these are birds you eat birds you don't eat and in the marine life certain fish you eat certain fish you don't eat Leviticus 11

Deuteronomy 14 because these are unclean now why then does he say certain animals are unclean and then later on we're told by Paul in Romans 14 all food is clean if it's received in Thanksgiving right that you receive it in Thanksgiving thank God for your provision is that a contradiction no it's not a contradiction a thing becomes unclean when God tells you I don't want you to eat this because if you do you'll become unclean so then why did God say it was unclean to eat these things because he going to use animals to teach

a greater spiritual truth he's going to use Birds to teach a greater spiritual truth number one guys you got to listen to this this is your your edification to know why these commands were given and why animals in of themselves are not unclean meaning when they were created they were created clean and pure so then why does he call them unclean well now because of the fall and because of sin things have changed but listen in Jesus name as the Holy Spirit enables me to speak clearly you got to learn this argument God told the

Israelites you're going to eat a certain way you're going to dress a certain way you're going to look a certain way why so you don't be like the Nations but stand out and be different from them so if you read the laws carefully God is saying I'm going to distinguish you from the Nations I'm going to make you different from the Nations you're going to look different you're going to smell different you're going to dress different you're going to eat different because I want the Nations to see how different you are so that will get

them curious to want to know why you're different so then you can be my light to tell them who your God is so they can come and believe in me and be saved okay you with me so far I am brother yes okay so one way he showed the difference between his people and the Nations nations steeped in sin and wickedness immorality idolatry meaning unclean one way he showed the difference that you are to be clean and holy for I am Holy in fact did you know in the commands of eating animals and forbidding certain

animals that's living IUS 11 right uh Leviticus 11 yes yeah that's the chap but now notice what he says in that chapter Leviticus 11: 4445 after talking about here the animals you eat here the animals you don't eat Leviticus 11444 right uh for I am the Lord your God consecrate yourself therefore and be holy for I am Holy you shall not defile yourself with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground for I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God you shall therefore be holy for

I am Holy so he even connects eating animals with them being holy like God is Holy I am Holy You Are Holy therefore do not defile yourself and be unclean by eating these forbidden Meats because you're to be holy like I'm holy see he connects it with his people being separate because a lot of people may not know this the word holy Kad in Hebrew and aios in Greek means to be set apart sanctify set apart the word holy means to be set apart to be different so when he says I am Holy and you

are to be holy meaning you and I are set apart from the world you and I are distinguished from the world to be set apart to be Sanctified to be taken out of the world and to be different from the world that's the idea you get my point yeah because when you say about k sacred holy basically yeah means the word holy sacred means to be set apart you're being set apart for something so I'm setting you apart like I'm set apart from the world I'm unlike the world I'm not like the world I'm unlike

their gods I'm set apart so one way to show that Israel was set apart different from the world and not like the Nations and their God is not like the gods and the Nations is the way they would eat they would eat differently they would dress differently they would speak differently they would act differently they would worship differently so the Nations will look and say wow why are you so different because our God is different from your Gods our God is not like your Gods so they come in worship God are you with me there

yes sir 1 Peter 1:15 to 16 so the purpose of the clean and unclean animals believe it or not was to show Israel the difference between them being clean and the Nations being unclean the animals represented the Nations and why Israel could not be defiled and contaminated by the Nations did you know that no yes or no no brother I do not know that you know where I got this from where brother acts 10 verses 9- 16 acts 10: 9-6 Peter sees a vision three times a table spread with clean unclean animals and birds and

God says Get Up and kill and eat Peter says I have never eaten anything clean or common and then God three times tells him do not call common or unclean what God is about to make clean that's in Acts 109 to16 right so now what do these animals represent because then if you look at acts 10 1718 it says 17 to 20 it says when Peter awoke from the vision and he was puzzled he didn't understand what it meant right then it says three men three Gentiles sent by Cornelius the Centurion who had a vision

of an Angel telling him s send for Peter he has a message of Salvation so then three Gentiles are coming and then the Holy Spirit acts 109-20 tells him Simon go down immediately for there are three men coming looking for you they're told you live here do not hesitate go I have sent them yes okay how many times did he see the vision three times brother how many Gentiles came looking for him three because according to the Jews you could not enter the home of a gentile because you'd be unclean and defiled so the Jews

used to be afraid to go to the homes of Gentiles especially to eat with them so he saw clean and unclean animals three times and three Gentiles are coming because the unlean animals represented these three Gentiles and God was telling him don't be afraid to go with them because now I will make them clean and pure and one with you amen okay now how do I know that's the meaning of the vision Peter's going to tell you go to acts 10 and I want you to read acts 10 2728 and as he walked uh talked

with him he went in and found many persons gathered and all Gentiles so enter a gentile home yes and he said to them you yourself know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another Nation but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean when did he show him that uh in his dream brother the vision of clean and unclean animals yes but now Peter OD the animals represented humans yes God has shown me I shouldn't call you Gentiles common unclean anymore because

you Gentiles are now going to be made clean and pure like us through faith in Jesus so we cannot consider you unclean and we should not hesitate to join you but he showed him animals not humans amen you understand how what the animals function as the purpose of showing him the animals yes brother so you see God's master plan I'm going to teach you my people the difference between you who are clean because you belong to me and the Nations unclean no unclean animals because the unclean animals refers to unclean pagans worshiping gods and goddesses

steep the morality so the clean and unclean will not mix this is what he was doing to teach them but now I'm calling the Nations to believe in me and be made pure by the blood of Christ so now that clean unclean removed in Christ you're all clean in Christ so now when God calls the Gentiles to saving faith and makes them his people the true Israel guess what now Christians no longer distinguish between clean and unclean animals because the purpose of clean and unclean animals was to point to God's people Israel being clean and

the Nations unclean steep in Idol but now that is no longer the case all na s will be God's people true Israel through faith in Christ so the clean unclean remove that's why Gentiles can eat whatever now that's the message