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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
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...
The Good Shepherd of the sheep
57-0308 §33
I want you to think: You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I enjoy the Word of God." Yes, brother, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The weed out here is just as good, rejoices just as much to get that water that falls down from heaven, and rejoices with it just as much as your cotton does, just as much as your garden does. It's the same water. But at the end time, what happens? He sends forth the angels and gathers all the briars, all the bad weeds, the foul things, and they're cast into the fire. But what happe...
Why?
61-0413 §121
Our heavenly Father, these people have come upon the simple Word of the living God, and upon the story that happened some twenty years ago when a cruel-hearted hunter, to be mean and indifferent that day up there on that snowdrift... When he saw a mother deer display a real genuine love, he saw something real. That's what he wanted. Surely, if God could give that kind of love to an animal, He could give it to a man. There You give him that great experience of the new birth. Now, Father, these are standing around th...
Trying to do God a service without it being His will
65-0718M §106
And I look down, see my good friend Bill Dauch sitting there, seventy-two or seventy-three years old. I look around; I see these kids they think, "Well, I'll wait till I get as old as Brother Branham, I'll think that..." Honey, you may never see that; I doubt very much you seeing it, see. But just think, if Brother Bill Dauch lives through this day, he'll outlive hundreds of fifteen-, sixteen-year-old people. They're dying every hour. So what difference does it make what age you are? What are you doing about the ho...