Acts chater 10 is not about typical gentiles of the nations, but of a people that were once of Israel but had strayed off the path of the Torah (they and their ancestors) and once again became like Gentiles, lost to their true identity. In Acts 10 we see that Kefa (Peter) was in Jaffa at the home of Simon the Tanner. It tells us this was Simon the Tanner who lived by the sea. We have learned previously that the term “sea” in the scriptures refers on a deeper level to the nations. It also indicates he worked with hides, being a tanner. This was something the Priest worked with in their daily job. So on a sod (deeper) level, it’s saying he was living among the gentile nation, but he was really connected to the Priesthood in his heart. Now we also read about Cornelius here who was a “God Fearer”. Isn’t it odd if he was a gentile why he was doing “Hebrew” things?

Why didn’t Peter tell him, hey Cornelius, you’re not under that law stuff now, you’re free from that “bondage”. Let’s go have a ham dinner together. And by the way, don’t ask for that “tongues thing” because it’s all going to disappear anyway when us top 12 are out of here! As for the “sheet” as the King Jimmy translation calls it, that was a Hebrew prayer shawl that had nothing to do with telling Peter what were unclean animals were now clean to eat. Notice in the vision that the sheet comes to the “ground”, meaning it was YHVH’S kingdom of Torah on the earth. It was YHVH’S way of telling Peter not to call any “man” unclean who was in the kingdom, whether it be Jew or Gentile. Yeshua, who is the kingdom, had already came to the earth to make all men clean who would accept the gift. Finally, why did the voice speak to Peter 3 times? It represents the 3 times that Ruth requested of Naomi to stay with her. This was and still is a formula used in Judaism when a gentile wants to convert. They turn you down 3 times so if you’re not serious about keeping Torah, you’ll give up on the idea. Then and now it’s always been YHVH’S desire to see idolatrous Israel who are indistinguishable from true Gentiles, to wake up and return to Torah and stop acting like “unclean animals”. So this was not a sheet Martha, could you endorse a “prayer shawl” maybe?