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.
Leadership
65-1207 §27
Watch the birds, watch the animals, watch everything, and you watch nature. Watch the little dove, how he flies. What a different bird he is, see. He doesn't have any gall; he can't eat like the crow can, see. He has no gall in him. He doesn't have to take a bath in the water, because he's got something on the inside of him; it cleans him from the inside out, you see. And that's the way the Christian is. That's the way God represented Himself---in a dove. See, because ... and Jesus was represented as a lamb. Always...
The Lamb and the Dove
56-0917 §12
Just a little farther, I seen another shepherd, and he was herding in the--a field. And there was donkeys, camels, sheep, goats, all together. And I said, "Well, that shepherd's got things all mixed up." I said, "I thought a--a shepherd just herded sheep." He said, "No, shepherds can herd most any kind of animal." He said, "But..." I said, "Well, why is it they all eat together?" He said, "They all eat from the same field." But he said, "Brother Branham, the strange thing about this is, that the shepherd will watch...
God keeps His Word
57-0115 §21
And God takes His eagles of the Old Testament there, and He raises them up, and lets them see far off, things that's coming. Then when they come down, they can predict what they seen. You understand now? They are eagles. And I guess many, some of you scholars here has read Pemberman's "Early Ages," and lot of those, and "Preacher and Prayer." And so I was wondering one time when I was at the Cincinnati zoo at Cincinnati, Ohio. I seen a sight that struck me. Being that I'm a lover of nature, I love animals. I was a...
The Lamb and the Dove
57-0325 §35
When this dove came from the heavens---the meekest bird of all the heavens---came to the meekest animal on all the earth, heavens and earth kissed each other. Heaven and earth was united together. Man and God was reconciled in one body, the Lord Jesus Christ. Certainly it was. It was the God of heaven in a form of dove. The Son of God in the form of lamb. And the dove came down on the Lamb and abode on Him. Never just come down and lit and went away, it stayed there. It was satisfied. And the Lamb was satisfied to...
Accepting God's Provided Way at the end time
63-0115 §14
That was wrote in the Christian Businessmen's Voice. And a minister wrote me the other day. He said, "I appreciated that vision, Brother Branham. It sounded all very good till you mentioned horses. Heaven is made for human beings. There's no such a thing as horses in heaven." "Well," I said---I answered him back---I said, "Brother, I never said I was in heaven. I was asking where Jesus was, and He was still beyond." I said, "But if it might help you a little, in the book of Revelation it says, when Jesus left the h...