Acts 10 describes the calling, purification, baptism and Holy Spirit filling of Cornelius’ family and close friends. This was a monumental moment in the early church; God included Gentiles in the blessings originally promised to his chosen people. It changed the face of what the Christian-Jews thought Christianity was going to look like.
(Has God ever radically changed your understanding of His Kingdom?)
Even beyond Old Testament prophecies, this event was foretold within the Jews’ own traditional writings. I find this fascinating:
“the Jews themselves own, that what is now unclean, will be clean
in the time to come, or the times of the Messiah; they say, ‘every
beast which is unclean in this world, the holy blessed God (htwa
rhjm), cleanses it, in the time to come, (the times of the
Messiah,) as they were at first clean to the sons of Noah (Genesis
9:3), wherefore, as the herb was clean to all, and as the beasts
were clean to the sons of Noah; so also in the time to come he will
loose what he has bound, or forbidden.’”
John Gill, biblestudytools.org
I am certainly thankful God has loosed what was forbidden. I am certainly thankful God has included me in his saving purification!
What are you thankful for?
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