Even though chapter 10 might be hard to understand when reading, it is some of the greatest news ever spoken by God. In all of the book of Acts, chapter 10 is one of the most important chapters we will read. Chapter 10 is the moment God tells us that Jesus's love and blood covers all people. Peter's vision had nothing to do with food or animals, it was about all of mankind. God was telling Peter that what used to be seen as unclean was now clean by the blood of His perfect son!

This is such wonderful and amazing news!

This is amazing news because we are the unclean.  Most of us that read this come from Gentile decent.  We are the unclean by blood and by sin. We are the centurion we read about in Acts 10. The centurion was a God-fearing man, but unclean by blood.  He and his family were seen as unclean by the world, even the believing world.

Just like what we read in Ephesians 2, God who is great in mercy has made us clean by the blood of His son! We were born dead, deserving of Hell, and unclean, but God has made clean what use to be "common." Understand, for Peter and the entire Jewish world, this was such a shift in understanding. The people had lived under the law and the love of God was connected to the commandments that He gave His people in Exodus. The vision Peter witnesses is so very different than what he had been taught growing up.  This shift shows us the power of Jesus! Remember what Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 5:

Jesus came to single-handedly  make clean all that is dirty!  He came for the Jew and the Gentile, for all those who place their trust in Him! He took on sin, soaked up the wrath of God, so that all that used to be seen as unclean could now be seen as spotless in the eye of the Creator. Praise God for Jesus!

Stay faithful church.  

 Read Romans 7 as God word speaks on being saved and cleaned by Jesus.