Are There Animals in Heaven?
Yes. The Bible shows animals in God’s realm and promises them in the world to come.
Scriptural explanation:
- Heaven: The Bible says heaven opened and the Lord came on a white horse, and “the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses” (Revelation 19:11,14). Elisha also saw “horses and chariots of fire” around him (2 Kings 6:17). You see, that’s a heavenly scene including animals.
- The Kingdom on earth: When the curse is lifted under Christ’s reign, creation is restored. “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb… the lion shall eat straw like the ox… they shall not hurt nor destroy” (Isaiah 11:6–9; 65:25). Romans 8:19–22 says all creation groans now, but will be delivered into the liberty of the sons of God. So animals are included in that restoration.
- Their nature: Animals are not redeemed like people. Man has a soul that goes upward to God, but the beast’s spirit is earthly (Ecclesiastes 3:21). God cares even for the sparrow (Matthew 10:29), yet salvation is about the new birth in man. Animals share the blessing of a lifted curse, not the redemption of a soul.
Simple logic:
- If Scripture shows horses in heaven, then animals are present in that realm.
- If the coming Kingdom restores creation to peace, then animals will certainly be there.
- But they are not in the same class as the redeemed; they are part of creation under our redemption, not partakers of the new birth.
So, yes—there are animals in heaven, and there will be animals in Christ’s restored Kingdom. Not three classes of salvation—just one Redeemer for man—yet the whole creation benefits when the curse is removed.
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From that time
60-0716 §104
And just then, I looked. I had an old dog. We used to hunt; he clothed me, put me in school, possum hunting, coon hunting and things. And when we moved into the city, a policeman poisoned him. When I patted his grave, when I buried him in our back yard, I said, "Fritz, if there is a place..." I was a sinner, about seventeen years old. I said, "If there is a place called heaven, you'll be there." Later on, I got converted. I always thought... Now some ... I told somebody this, and they said, "An animal being in heav...
Abraham
60-0803 §38
Someone said, "There's no animals in heaven." Now, that's just all you know about the Bible. Where is them horses that come down and took Elijah up? Where's that horse that the Son of God come in riding on a white charger, dipped in blood? When's the wolf and lamb going to feed together, and the ox and the lion eat straw together? Where's that going be at, see, if there isn't there? Sure they're there. God loses nothing. Certainly they'll be there. And then, we happened... I noticed, and he licked me on the hand. A...
Spirit of Truth
63-0118 §30
It's been about, almost two years now. I was ... one morning I was walking in the house, and had sat down in a chair. Now, this seems very strange that God would include an animal. Like some precious brother on that vision of heaven, and that little carrying-up I had---I believe I told you about it once in some meeting. He wrote me a letter the other day and said (Businessmen's Voice packed it), said, "It was ... your vision was all right, Brother Branham, your translation. But listen, it was all right until you sa...
Condolences to the Stadsklev Family
60-0924 §13
And just then, I looked, and coming down across the hill I saw my old dog, my old Fritz; he put me through school. I'd hunt with him at nighttime, and he'd, you know, catch some opossums and coons, and things, and I'd sell fur. And that was my old dog coming. And just then, I looked, and here come my little old horse. Now, a minister once said to me not long ago, when I was referring this, said, "Do you think that animals would be in heaven?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Where do you get that for Scripture?" I...
God making His promise
56-1209A §22
Now, notice this: When God so desired to introduce His Son to the world, He introduced Him as ... presented Him as a lamb, a beast, a animal. Could you imagine that? that God speaking of His Son and introduced Him as a lamb, a sheep, young sheep? Wonder why He did that? And God, when He introduced Himself to the world, was in a form of a dove, a bird, the fowl of heaven. Now, here's to my opinion. The lamb is the most meekest and gentlest of all the beasts there is on earth. There's nothing any more gentler than a...