John Piper on Acts 10 ramifications: In other words, with the coming of Jesus into the world and with the final cleansing sacrifice of Christ now offered and with the command to take the gospel to all ethnic groups in the world now given, the old ceremonial laws about foods are lifted and that barrier to the Gentile world is removed.
And so Peter's vision has two points: 1.)the food laws are fulfilled and ended in Jesus (Mark 7:19), and 2.) the people they kept you separate from (the nations, the Gentiles) are not to be considered unclean or common.
Here is a great article on the gospel and people who are investigating Christianity... the Cornelius-types who God brings in our path
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