God spoke to Noah after he left the ark and said in Gen 9:3-4:

3 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
4 "But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

 

Now when Jesus declared all foods clean why would he be specifying only the foods that were already considered clean? The Jews already knew this and it was related to them in the Law. It would be redundant to do so.

 

Yet before the Law every moving thing was food for everyone. So, when Jesus declared all foods clean he was also including the food that Noah was given to eat.

 

Also, when the apostles wrote to the Gentiles in Acts 15:19-20 they determined by the Holy Spirit:

19 "Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
20 "but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

 

This is what God told Noah, this is what the Holy Spirit through the Apostles told the Gentiles and this is no doubt what Jesus was saying as well.

 

Remember what Paul said in Rom 14:2-4:

2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

 

The Law was a tutor to bring us to Christ...in him we live, and breathe and have our being. We cannot be bewitched into thinking that our righteousness comes from anything else than faith in Jesus Christ.

 

In Jesus,

 

John Johnson