Please explain Acts 10:15 regarding the cleansing of all manner of beasts. The lesson of Acts 10 to Peter was not that all kinds of beasts were fit for food. It was no arbitrary rule of God that discriminated between the clean and unclean beasts in Leviticus 11. God made that division because there existed in the beasts themselves the very things that demanded the law. Yet it is in God's power to cleanse that which is unclean. Comparing men with beasts, Peter counted the Jewish nation as among the clean. He counted the Gentiles as among the unclean, and no doubt likened them, as did other Jews, to dogs and other vile creatures. The natural prejudices of the Jews were such that even none of the disciples had any burden to labor for the salvation of the Gentiles. Peter imbibed this strong race prejudice, and therefore God had to give him a threefold vision in order that Peter might understand that God could cleanse Gentiles just as well as He could Jews. It was not the object of the Saviour to teach Peter to eat everything. Peter tells us just what the object was in verse 28, "Ye yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and yet unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean." That is the Lord's lesson to Peter and to us.