Goodbye, Scales; Hello, Discipleship

There just so happens to be a follower of Jesus named Ananias (not the greedy, dead one from before… a different guy) living in Damascus.
Ananias has a vision where God tells him to go find Saul and restore his sight.
Ananias is a tiny bit skeptical, though. Um, God, hasn't Saul been rounding up Christians left and right? Are you sure I should just walk in there and introduce myself and heal him in the name of Jesus?
Yeah, it's totally cool, God tells him. He's gonna bring my message to the Gentiles and all that good stuff. And he's gonna suffer quite a bit, too. I kind of dig irony.

So Ananias goes and heals Saul and "something like scales fell from his eyes." Gross.
He Saw A Vision Of Sheets

Meanwhile, the next day in Joppa Peter is on the roof praying when he gets a little hungry and sees yet another vision.
He sees a sheet being sort of lowered down from the sky with all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds running around on it. Um, okay.
God tells him to go ahead and kill one and eat it.
Nice try, Lord, Peter tells the Almighty. I don't eat unclean foods. I keep kosher all the way.
The voice tells him again, Seriously? I just told you it was fine. "What God has made clean, you must not call profane."
Peter hears this three times and the whole vision disappears.

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