There’s one thing I want you to realize about God’s Kosher food laws as detailed in both the Book of Leviticus and here in Deuteronomy.
Did you notice they’re actually really quite simple?
However, if one were to examine the Jewish writings from before and after the time of Yeshua, it would be more than obvious that the Rabbis had so expanded on…
…or maybe it would be more accurate to say that they had so inflated the rules of Kosher eating that…
…if Moses himself were to read the several Tamuldic tractates dealing with diet…
…he probably would have said…
“WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?!”
In other words, I highly doubt he would have recognized them as being the original kosher laws he had been given on Mount Sinai.
Yeshua also spoke out loud and clear against this subject.
“He replied to them,
“So you too are without understanding?
Don’t you see that nothing going into a person
from outside can make him unclean?
For it doesn’t go into his heart
but into his stomach,
and it passes out into the latrine.
(Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)”
-Mark 7:18-19
Understand that Yeshua was criticizing traditions that had replaced God’s Word.
Yeshua was saying that in the final analysis, it’s not what goes into a person’s mouth that made him or her unclean in God’s eyes.
Rather it was what came out out of one’s mouth meaning that one’s speech is a reflection of one’s heart and innermost thoughts.
This was NOT Yeshua abandoning the dietary laws of the Torah.
If he was going against Torah, we can immediately cross this guy off our list as a false and deceiving Messiah.
Remember Yeshua himself said…
“Don’t think that I have come to abolish
the Torah or the Prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to complete.
Yes indeed!
I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away,
not so much as a yud or a stroke
will pass from the Torah
— not until everything that must happen has happened.
So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and
teaches others to do so will be called the least in
the Kingdom of Heaven.
But whoever obeys them and so teaches
will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
-Matthew 5:17-19
Understand that when Yeshua declared all foods clean, he was in a heated debate concerning the accusation that some of his disciples were eating food with ritually unclean hands.
The traditions of the Elders at that time dictated that one had to give their hands a ceremonial washing BEFORE partaking of any food.
In Hebrew, this is called N’TILAT-YADAYIM.
He was NOT overturning God’s kosher laws as established in Leviticus.
It wasn’t even an issue of discussion here.
Again don’t listen to the church and gentile “theologians” who have absolutely zero foundation of Torah knowledge just going doggone hog wild with their ridiculous misinterpretations.
There is no way in heck a Torah-observant Jew like Yeshua would suddenly say that a pig would be considered Kosher in God’s eyes.
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