The Messiah told the 12 disciples to only go to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 10:5-6) but then instructs Peter through a vision to go visit a family from another nation (Acts 10).
Are these two instructions a contradiction to what He said in Matthew 15:24?
Peter received a vision instructing him to eat unclean animals (Acts 10:10-16) with Peter saying that he cannot eat unclean animals. The voice in the vision said “What Elohim has cleansed you do not consider common” (Acts 10:15).
Peter doubted what the vision might mean (Acts 10:17). When you read the whole story, the vision was not about eating unclean animals but about other nations, like in this example a man named Cornelius and his family from Italy who were committed believers in Elohim.
When Peter entered his house, he said to Cornelius “You know that a Yehudite (Yehudean) man is not allowed to associate with, or go to one of another race (Acts 10:28).
Peter knew Elohim was showing him through the vision that believers from other nations are not to be seen as unclean.
In those times and still to this day, Judaism (Rabbinical tradition) states no Jew shall touch, sit or visit another nation that is unclean (man-made law).
Once Peter meets up with Cornelius and his family he said “Truly I see that Elohim shows no partiality, but in every nation, he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him (Acts 10:34-35).
Conclusion.
To me again this proofs that Israel is not a gene (race) but about hearing and doing His Will or Way (Being obedience to the Almighty).
Peter says, he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him and in Exodus 19:5-6 the Heavenly Father says, “If you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – and you yourselves become to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.”
Messiah was not contradicting.
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