{"id":14461,"date":"2023-12-20T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14461"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:03:12","slug":"acts-1520-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14461\/acts-1520-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts 15:20-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I have a question about Acts 15:20-21.\u00a0 In the letter that the elders from Jerusalem sent to the Gentiles, they listed some things for the Gentiles to abstain from for the sake of the Jews.\u00a0 One of them was abstaining from &#8220;what is strangled&#8221;.\u00a0 Was there a law in the Old Testament about not eating something that had been strangled?\u00a0 I was just wondering where this came from.\u00a0 \u00a0It stood out to me because it doesn&#8217;t seem like something that would be in the top 3 or 4 things that the elders would have named in that letter, but since they did, it must have been important.\u00a0 I searched for the word &#8220;strangled&#8221; in the Old Testament and didn&#8217;t find anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Hi, Lyn.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>If an animal\u00a0is killed by strangling, the blood remains\u00a0in the meat, and you know what God said about eating meat with the blood:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>&#8220;You shall not eat\u00a0anything\u00a0with the blood&#8221; (Lev. 19:26a).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>And this:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">&#8220;If any man of the house of Israel or of any stranger who dwells among them consumes any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who consumes the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people&#8221; (Lev. 17:10).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>These are\u00a0the commandments\u00a0to which the elders in Jerusalem were referring.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Good question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, I have a question about Acts 15:20-21.\u00a0 In the letter that the elders from Jerusalem sent to the Gentiles, they listed some things for the Gentiles to abstain from for the sake of the Jews.\u00a0 One of them was abstaining from &#8220;what is strangled&#8221;.\u00a0 Was there a law in the Old Testament about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}