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 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...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §237
Heavenly Father, take us now, Lord. Let the great shepherd, the great redeeming shepherd, the great shepherd, who left glory, knowing that some of the attributes was lost on the great valleys of sin, where the wolves and the animals would soon devour that little sheep. But He left the golden corridors, came down into the earth and was made one of us, so He could declare the love of God to us. There He found them: some of them in denominations, some of them in the house of ill-fame, some of them on the streets---bli...
Divine Love
57-0305 §39
I went out to the old possum, where she was laying. And I said, "Heavenly Father, You forgive me. I was so took up with things of the day, so I never understood. And if You sent that dumb animal, who did not have any soul, but was guided by instinct to come to my door to be prayed for, so she could live and raise her babies, forgive me, Lord. And I pray that in Jesus' name that You'll help her." Brother, sister, when I meet you at the judgment, this will be ringing out. Little Becky was standing there looking down....