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.
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...
Why it had to be shepherds
64-1221 §103
They said, "John, how did you know it? I didn't see one thing different." "But I bear record, I saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and a voice saying, 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am pleased to dwell in.' " Watch the dove and the lamb. See? Yeah. What if it had been a ... what if it had been something... What if it had been a wolf standing there? Well, that lamb could not have went upon ... or that dove... God symbolized Himself with a dove, the most meekest of all the birds of the heaven; his Son b...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-102
...created for God. Man was to be the temple of God. The place of God's rest (the Holy Spirit) was man, the temple. Acts 7:46-51, "Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built Him an house. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of My rest? Hath not My hand made all these things? Ye stiff-necked and uncir...
Show us the Father and it'll satisfy
56-0422 §109
You have to take my word. When I said that, that possum turned its head and looked at me, raised up from there, that leg just as normal as any other leg, picked her babies in her bosom, strutted down that road like that. Got to the gate, that tail sticking up like that, turned around as if to say, "Thank you, sir." Right down the road she went to the woods. O God, He's everywhere! Surely, if by instinct God could lead a possum to a place to be prayed for, how much more can He a man and woman. Oh, God is in His univ...
Why?
60-0309 §37
Now, we find out that this medicine, when they inoculate this guinea pig, that was a animal. They inoculate, and then they give this serum to a human being. It's not too sure. That inoculation might not work on you. But I'll say one thing---God's inoculation will work on you. It's perfect. Why? There was a sample of it given forth until the real serum come, by the blood of bulls and of goats and sheep, and so forth. It wasn't too much, because it was animals. But one day the holiest thing of heaven come, the Son of...