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 Deep calling to the deep
56-0415 §13
Let's take prophets. The prophet Elijah, after he had called fire out of heaven, called rain out of heaven, the same day. And had closed the heavens for three years and six months. After that, he wandered in the wilderness, after the inspiration left him, he wandered for forty days and nights, not even knowing where he was at. And you know where God found Him? Pulled back in a cave. He asked him, "What are you doing in here?" Inspiration had left him. While he was under the inspiration, all right. But look. He kill...
Conference
60-1125 §22
I see him standing there, Adam with his big manly body that was a very picture of health. When I was in Greece here not long ago I seen a picture of some unconverted mind, a great artist who had painted a picture of Adam and Eve. It was a discredit to humanity. Eve looked like an animal instead of a lady: great hair hanging one side, and her mouth sitting sideways, and one leg bigger than the other one, and oh, she looked horrible. That's what the conception of the unconverted mind. Eve was the most beautiful woman...
God's provided way of approach to fellowship
60-0709 §82
Our heavenly Father, I humbly bring to You of the trophies of this little mixed-up message tonight, these precious souls, some twenty or thirty, that raised their hands, saying that they need Thee. O God, they want to enter into the relationship and to the real divine fellowship, into the shechinah, the Pentecostal shechinah that fell on the day of Pentecost, that God came down, rent the veil and brought Himself in the presence of man, because the real blood had been offered that forgave sins. The blood of bulls an...
Blind Bartimaeus
54-0402 §12
...erty has raised up, or give a testimony, and Sister Daugherty. Is Betty with you, Brother Daugherty? One of my first books I published called, "I Was Not Disobedient To The Heavenly Vision"; to a little lady, a little girl, dying with something like St. Vitas dance, just screaming and going on. The doctors had give her up, and ministers had prayed. I was having a meeting. There's men sitting right here tonight, pitched in fifty-cents apiece to pay my railroad fare to come over here in Louisville, catch a train to g...
Jehovah-Jireh
58-0127 §36
But in Orient, how they make a covenant, they take an animal, and they slay this animal. And they stand between the dead pieces of the body ... the pieces of the dead body, rather, and as they stand between these pieces, they write the covenant: "I agree to do such, and such, and such." And then they tear it apart. One man takes one piece, one another, and they hold their hands and swear: if this covenant is broken, let their bodies be like the dead beast. But when that covenant is recognized, confirmed, both of th...