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.
Oneness
62-0211 §85
Now, when we see this... See, the penalty must be paid, and no... The highest form of animal life is a human being, and the human being fell itself. So how can one human save another? It taken God. And God, in Spirit, could not die. So, "God had to bring Hisself a little lower than the Angels," Hebrews the 1st chapter, the 1st verse. Had to make Hisself lower than the Angels in order to take death to pay the penalty to bring the oneness between man and God again, so the Holy Ghost could come back. The debt of sin w...
Witnesses
54-0303 §71
This is the patient. How do you do? All right. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has raised from the dead. And He lives in His church tonight, moving with His people. And He loves His people. And He loves everyone, even sinners did He love. And He loves us. He loves you. He loves me. We're strange to each other, yet, God knows both of us, all of our lives. And brought us to this spot in life. Only He can help us and do us good. And if I, your brother, and could help you or do anything for you, and wouldn't do it, I wou...
Divine Love
57-0305 §29
And I was going out across the field, singing to myself, and I come up to a little bunch of scrub timber; and all of a sudden out of that scrub timber raised this big killer bull. And he looked right at me. What was the first thing? I reached for the gun to kill him. I had no gun. I looked for the fence: about three hundred yards. He was standing about twenty or thirty yards from me. There was no trees, nowhere to go. It was, 'stand and take your death.' So, I said, "Heavenly Father, I suppose this is the end." And...
Why some people can't keep the victory
57-0324 §31
Now, that's the way it is today. You can't take this brand new, heaven-born, Pentecostal wine and mix it up with an old time creed of some sort; some old set-in-the-way, dyed-in-the-wool. Why, if you do, you go to preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Divine healing, and signs and wonders, that old skin will try to stretch and it'll blow up: "The days of miracles is past. I can't stand it no more. I can't even stand through this sermon." Blowie! Out the door it goes. That's right. You can't do it. But to...
On the wings of a snow-white Dove
65-1128E §66
Well, wasn't there something like that in the Bible, said, "If you can..."? Just happened to come to me. Daniel, wasn't it? No, Joseph. Joseph. Well, it's somewhere in the Bible. I just remembered that. Said, "If you can show me... If you can tell me what a..." Oh, it's King Nebuchadnezzar, that's right. Said, "If you can... If you can't... " The magicians said, "Tell me the dream." He said, "It's gone from me." That's right, I remember that; just thought of it then. Now notice. And Mama, she said, "Billy," when I...