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Are There Animals In Heaven?

(All Biblical quotations in this article are from the New Revised Standard Version.)
Animal lovers believe that heaven will They shall not hurt or destroy on all my
reunite them with beloved pets. Many holy mountain.”
passages in the Bible confirm God’s The Psalms are full of references to
love and concern for all of His creation. God deserving praise from all living
Genesis 1:25 “God made the wild animals creatures because he created and cares
of the earth of every kind, and the cattle for them. In Psalm 50:10-11, God said,
of every kind, and everything that creeps “For every wild animal of the forest is
upon the ground of every kind. And God mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I
saw that it was good.” know all the birds of the air, and all that
God included every living creature in moves in the field is mine.” Psalm 100:
His covenant with Noah after the flood, 1 “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all
Genesis 9:16. God told Jonah of His the earth.” Psalm 104:24&30, “O Lord,
concern for the people and animals in how manifold are your works! In wis-
Nineveh, Jonah 4:11. God delighted in dom you have made them all; the earth
telling Job of the beauty and majesty of is full of your creatures… When you
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His creatures and how He cares for them, send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
Job 38:39 – 39:30. Nathan used an ex- and You renew the face of the ground.”
ample of a pet lamb to show David that King David wrote in Psalm 145:9 “The
he had sinned. 2 Samuel 12: 3, “but the Lord is good to all, and His compassion
poor man had nothing but one little ewe is over all that he has made.” Psalms
lamb, which he had bought. He brought 148:5 “Let them praise the name of the
it up, and it grew up with him and with Lord, for he commanded and they were
his children; it used to eat of his meager created.” Psalm 150:6 “Let everything
fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in that breathes praise the Lord!”
his bosom, and it was like a daughter to Many of the events in Jesus’ life were
him.” There are two witnesses recorded shared with animals: His birth, Luke 2:
in the Bible who saw animals in heaven. 7, “And she gave birth to her firstborn
Peter, in Acts 10:10-12 and John in Rev- son and wrapped him in bands of cloth
elation 5:13. and laid Him in a manger, because there
King Solomon, known for his great was no place for them I the inn”; after
wisdom, wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:14, “I His baptism, Mark 1: 12-13, “And the
know that whatever God does endures Spirit immediately drove Him out into
forever; nothing can be added to it, nor the wilderness. He was in the wilderness
anything taken from it; God has done for forty days, tempted by Satan; and He
this, so that all should stand in awe be- was with the wild beasts; and the angels
fore Him.” Verses 19-20, “For the fate waited on Him”; and on Palm Sunday
of humans and the fate of animals is the when he rode into town on a donkey,
same; as one dies, so dies the other. They Matthew 21: 5, “Tell the daughter of
all have the same breath, and humans Zion, Look, your King is coming to you,
have no advantage over the animals; for humble, and mounted on a donkey, and
all is vanity. All go to one place; all are on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
from the dust, and all turn to dust again.” Throughout the Bible animals have
He wrote in Ecclesiastes 12:7, “and the been included in God’s plans for His
dust returns to the earth as it was, and creation. This includes the life to come.
the breath returns to God who gave it.”
Isaiah was given a glimpse of the new Co-Authored by
heavens and new earth to come. Isaiah Karen Conklin, Gulf Coast Dispensational
65: 25, “The wolf and the lamb shall feed Church, Venice, Florida
together, the lion shall eat straw like the The Reverend Craig F. Lewis, St. Paul
ox; but the serpent – its food shall be dust! Evangelical Lutheran Church, Marion, Ohio.
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