Are you a child of Israel? Most of us are not descended from the man Jacob, who was given the name Israel, So literally, the dietary law never applied to us. This is one reason you don't hear much preaching on it. People have taken various positions on the law because they don't know how to understand it.

:1. If you are not a child of Some believe since it was God's will for Israel, the literal law does not apply to you. But if you are a spiritual child of Israel, then the spiritual meaning applies to you.::it is God'''Israel''' ''Yisra’el'' ישׂראל - man יש joined by revelation ר to s will for anyone who loves God אל . If you are spiritual Israel; joined to In light of God by revelation, then you recognize 'eating' as a metaphor for 'learning'. This is the source for Paul's teaching command to Peter, that now all foods were clean, suggests that the wife (church) shall learn from her husband (Christ) <ref>1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence law has nothing to do with all subjectionmorality. God does not change his position on morality.</ref>

:2Some suggest that the diet proposed is healthier for one reason or another. But does God love the ancient Hebrews more than Christians? Doesn't he care if we get sick from eating bacon?  The only way to make sense of the law is to see it in the genre of the dinner theater. If Are you are a child of Israel? Let me suggest that you are, and we know so by using the tools John taught us to parse out the meaning of 'Israel'.:'''Israel''' ''Yisra’el'' ישׂראל - man יש joined by revelation ר to God אל . If you are commanded spiritual Israel; joined to eat these animalsGod by revelation, then you recognize 'eating' as a metaphor for 'learning'. There The name Israel is no optionone source for Paul's teaching that the wife (church) shall learn from her husband (Christ) <ref>1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. You cannot be </ref> Congratulations, you are a vegetarianchild of Israel. All arguments about pre-flood vegetarianism end hereWe know that the literal law no longer applies, because God changed it with Peter. But <ref> Acts 10:11ff</ref> BVut since God is speaking to us now, as the true children bonded to him by revelation, we need to understand the revelation. The literal children had to obey the law, his spiritual children need to understand the teaching learned from their performance in the dinner theater. Notice that there is was no penalty for being a vegetarian, not eating the command to eat these clean animals is an invitation . They could have chosen to participate be vegetarians. But then they would not have been actors in the play. For the spiritual children. However, for us, the word for marriage also means doctrine. If you don't we refuse to eat them/learn from Christ, you the clean animal, we are not one of the actors. For the spiritual child bride of Israel, the hidden teaching does applyChrist.