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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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...
The Unchangeable God working in an unexpectable way
62-0120 §37
Israel asked for a mighty king. They wanted a king to deliver them. That's what they expected God to send to them, was a king to deliver them---a mighty king that would march like David. The Son of David would rise up, come down the corridors of heaven, walk down to the earth in a full angel salute, and the Father would look out of the heaven and say, "I'm sending down to you now the Messiah." And they had it all fixed up that that's the way He was supposed to come. But what did they get? They got a baby instead of...
Then Jesus came and called
64-0417 §40
He was a prince, you know, in the East, and all the young princes used to come and bow before him because he was a man of wisdom. He was a prophet, and everybody wanted to see him and talk with him. Just a moment, just a moment of his time would just mean so much. And how he used to walk down the street with honor in his heart for God, because God had made him a prophet! And the wise men would come up and say, "Job, sir, we know that the great God of heaven is with you. Just one piece of advice we'd like to have. W...