Vessels Descending

[Word of Life]

Has anyone done any studies on these scriptures?

Act 10:11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: (KJV)

Act 10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven. (KJV)

Act 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: (KJV)

In the above scriptures Peter was praying and he saw this vessel descending, now is he talking about space ship?

Acts 10:11 And he saw the sky opened and something like a great sheet lowered by the four corners, descending to the earth. (Amplified)

Acts 11:5 I was in the town of Joppa praying, and [falling] in a trance I saw a vision of something coming down from heaven, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners; and it descended until it came to me. (Amplified)

I have also looked at the Interlinear Bible and they call it an instrument.

 

[ladylovesJesus]

This was Peter's vision.
Acts 10. The Message

Peter's Vision
1-3 There was a man named Cornelius who lived in Caesarea, captain of the Italian Guard stationed there. He was a thoroughly good man. He had led everyone in his house to live worshipfully before God, was always helping people in need, and had the habit of prayer. One day about three o'clock in the afternoon he had a vision. An angel of God, as real as his next-door neighbor, came in and said, "Cornelius."

4-6Cornelius stared hard, wondering if he was seeing things. Then he said, "What do you want, sir?"

The angel said, "Your prayers and neighborly acts have brought you to God's attention. Here's what you are to do. Send men to Joppa to get Simon, the one everyone calls Peter. He is staying with Simon the Tanner, whose house is down by the sea."

7-8As soon as the angel was gone, Cornelius called two servants and one particularly devout soldier from the guard. He went over with them in great detail everything that had just happened, and then sent them off to Joppa.

9-13The next day as the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray. It was about noon. Peter got hungry and started thinking about lunch. While lunch was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the skies open up. Something that looked like a huge blanket lowered by ropes at its four corners settled on the ground. Every kind of animal and reptile and bird you could think of was on it. Then a voice came: "Go to it, Peter—kill and eat."

14Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."

15The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."

16This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the skies.

17-20As Peter, puzzled, sat there trying to figure out what it all meant, the men sent by Cornelius showed up at Simon's front door. They called in, asking if there was a Simon, also called Peter, staying there. Peter, lost in thought, didn't hear them, so the Spirit whispered to him, "Three men are knocking at the door looking for you. Get down there and go with them. Don't ask any questions. I sent them to get you."

21Peter went down and said to the men, "I think I'm the man you're looking for. What's up?"

22-23They said, "Captain Cornelius, a God-fearing man well-known for his fair play—ask any Jew in this part of the country—was commanded by a holy angel to get you and bring you to his house so he could hear what you had to say." Peter invited them in and made them feel at home.

You have to read all of it sometimes in order to make sense of scriptures.

God bless :rainbow: :rose:

 

[Word of Life]

Thank you LadyLovesJesus, I have read all of it, and I understand the other scriptures apart from the one's I quoted, so I wasn't sure what this certain vessel descending part was.

Act 10:11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

Act 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

After reading Acts 11:5 again, (where Peter is describing the matter) that one makes it clearer, because Peter speaks about being in a trance and he saw a vision.

So God spoke to him in a vision then, which makes more sense to me.

Act 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: