Daugherty I've been super busy lately so haven't written anything on this page for a few weeks. However, my facebook feed threw up a blog post which sums up the food laws succinctly, so, with permission of the author, I have copied it here: If the food laws were “done away with”… Why is Isaiah describing end-time judgment on people eating pork? Isaiah 66 is not about the past. It is prophetic. “For behold, Yahuah will come with fire… For by fire and by His sword will Yahuah plead with all flesh… And the slain of Yahuah shall be many. Those who sanctify themselves… Eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, Shall be consumed together,” says Yahuah. (Isaiah 66:15–17) This is clearly future. It describes His coming in fire and global judgment. So if pork was made clean… Why is it listed as a reason for destruction at the end? Before you say: “But Acts 10 !” Acts 10 was about people, not pork. Peter literally explains the vision: “Yahuah has shown me that I shou...
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