2010年10月19日 · The “unclean animals” in the vision represented the gentiles, and God was saying that he counted them as “clean” [Acts 10:15]. God was inviting the gentiles into the communityof believers, and he wanted Peter (and the other Christians) to welcome them in, too. The lesson from the vision dawns on Peter later in the chapter, where he says:

2013年1月27日 · In John 1:42 we read. He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Pete

2017年5月17日 · Jesus described it as “a vision” The most likely explanation of the appearance of Elijah and Moses’ appearance with Jesus seen by three of the disciples is the one given by Jesus himself: And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.” (Matthew 17 ...

2014年9月23日 · Peter’s death occurred around 66 AD. It is not recorded in the book of Acts, whose narrative only continues into 50s of the first century.

If so then it is similar to the visions of Ezekiel (ch1 and 10) and Isaiah (ch6) where they had a vision of God’s dwelling place in heaven. Third Heaven in Jewish myths, and Seven Heavens Beyond this Bible use above of three heavens is a less common use in Jewish cosmology – the concept of “Third Heaven” as one of “Seven Heavens ...

2013年7月29日 · Simon’s name was changed to Peter (Mat. 16:18) because Jesus wanted to highlight the important role Peter would have in the early church.

2009年11月17日 · In this way the cleansing of the temple (by Nehemiah) and breaking up of the intermarriage (by Ezra and Nehemiah) correspond to the angel in the Zechariah 3 vision pulling “Jeshua the high priest” from the fire and giving him new clean clothes. Conclusion. This then gives the interpretation of the vision as follows:

2021年8月29日 · An example of a vision of this sort is the vision in Isaiah 6: 6 . 1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

2009年12月26日 · The dragon called Satan represents something, as do all the other features of this parable-vision such as the seven heads with crowns on, the ten horns, the tail catching hold of the stars, the angels and even heaven—all of these represent something. It makes no sense to try to understand this vision literally.

2009年9月29日 · The important thing is that Jewish readers, even without a full understanding of the connection between Zechariah 3 and Nehemiah 13 could at least know that the vision in Zechariah 3 was a political parable, not a real event where the dead high priest Jesus had literally been caught in dirty clothes in a literal heavenly throne room between a ...