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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The stature of a perfect man
62-1014M §96
Noah had patience. Yeah! Noah had real godly patience. God said, "I'm going to destroy this world with rain," and Noah preached 120 years---plenty of patience. Not even dew fell from heaven. Wasn't nothing. Just as dusty as it ever was for 120 years, but he was patient. Then God tries your patience. That's right. God tries them. After He told Noah, now He said, "Noah, I want you to go ahead and get in the ark. I'm going to run the animals in there. I want you to get in and climb way upstairs, now, so you can look o...
A Greater than Solomon is here now
64-0306 §103
Our heavenly Father, we come to You with penitent souls. How the little story about that mother deer struck down deep, that people wanted to do something, or see something real, like the Queen of the South, who came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And a greater than Solomon is here, the Saviour of mankind, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Save them, Father. Forgive their sins. Wash their souls in the blood of the Lamb, and give them an experience of being born a Christian. No other ani...
Seals 4: The Second Seal
63-0319 §135
Let's bow our heads just a moment. Heavenly Father, oh, I just sometimes, Lord, stand here, and I tremble. I think of that awful hour that's approaching, and there's no way to stop it. It's predicted that it would come. Now, I've thought of why don't the people come and listen, and why don't they come and accept it? But, of course I know that You said they wouldn't, so they won't. But there is some that have got their names written on the Lamb's book of life. And when them seals are thrown open there, they see thei...
Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
63-0324M §180
Now I want to ask you. That Holy Ghost dwells within you. Is that right? Do you talk to Him? Speak to Him? Pray to Him? All right, that's all I want... Thank you very much. Now, do you get it? I'll ask you one: How did it come that when Jesus in St. John 3, He said, "When the Son of man shall be, which now is in heaven [see?], now is in heaven, shall come to earth [see?], the Son of man which now is in heaven...," and here He stood right here talking to the person. Now, you answer me that. Jesus and the Father was...
The Good Shepherd of the sheep
57-0308 §45
How about Elijah, when he was under the anointing and called fire from heaven and then called rain from heaven. And killed four hundred priests and done what he did. And then when the anointing left him, he run from a woman, Jezebel, and was hid in the wilderness, not knowing where he was, for forty days and nights. And God found him plumb back in a cave. That right? It wasn't when he was standing there, the anointed prophet, no sir; it's when the anointing left him. That's right. How about Jonah, who had inspirati...