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.
Divine Love
57-0305 §27
And then when he come up there... The thing had to do to help the man, you've got to enter into his own suffering with him. The only way: you just treat anything good. Just be kind to an animal and you'll win it. How much more have you got to be kind, showing brotherly love one to another. And I talked to him, and somehow I just felt how bad the devil was. He had probably had raised a bunch of little kiddies in his day, working out there for a few pesos and eating little tortillas, maybe made out of old lettuce had...
Love
57-0519E §92
Your trouble, sister? You believe the Lord will make you well? All right. Let me have your hand just a moment. Now, look. You know that there's Something here that knows what's wrong with you. You realize that you are standing in the presence of Something besides a man to make you feel like that. Now, if that's right, raise up your hand to the audience. Certainly, it's that anointing. That's why I'm talking about it, see. That's what's in the presence. That's what made the big animal stop. That's what made the bees...
Law or Grace
54-1006 §27
When God the Father, in a form of a big cloud, hung over the children of Israel; and when He settled on the mountain that morning, to write the law; why, even if an animal touched the mountain, he must be thrust through with a dart. Only through sanctification did He bring Moses up. Set Aaron way down at the bottom of the hill to watch and to keep guard that nothing... And when that pillar of fire settled on that mountain, the lightning bursting forth, and the thunders roared, the blackness settled. When Jehovah Go...