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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Hear ye Him
57-0125 §60
Jonah, after having that inspiration on him to preach to a city the size of St. Louis, and they repented till they put sackcloths on their animals, then when the Spirit left him, he prayed for God to take his life. Elijah stood under inspiration, called fire out of heaven and called rain on the same day. And then when the inspiration left him, he was wandering in the wilderness for forty-eight nights. And God found him pulled back in a little cave. The Angel on the pool of the water, the first man stepping in with...
Abraham's covenant confirmed
61-0318 §7
I believe the boys has been giving out a little book here. I think it's called ... oh, yes, "The Christian Businessmen's Voice." How many has got it? That's good. If you haven't got it, get it tonight. Gene, I wonder if I could ask you, or somebody, get the boys at the doors, wherever they go out, or somebody. What are they selling them for? They're ten cents? If you haven't got it, you can take it anyhow. I'll pay for it, see. I want you to read this testimony here of the vision. Just ... I want every person in he...
Leading of the Spirit of God
55-0807E §44
I went back and sat down in my room. Rebekah went back into the kitchen. I was rubbing my head. I said, "Oh, my. I wish I could forget that. I guess I'll have to kill it. I don't want to do that. And something said to me, "Now, you was preaching about her yesterday. You said she was a real mother, and you respected her because that she was a mother. She's dying. And if she dies, her babies die. And yet, she wants to live for her babies. And you were preaching about her being a real mother. And I sent her to your st...
The infallible proof of the resurrection
57-0114 §40
And in the evening when the sun was going down and they went to the cathedral under the palm trees, or whatever trees it was in Eden, and they begin to worship, a soft mellow light, God, the Logos, came down over the top of the trees. And He said, "Children, have you enjoyed yourself today on the earth? I have come down to kiss you good night." And to lay them down at sleep. He laid all of His animals down to rest through the night. The Father said, "That's good. I like the way it's done." Do you think that the hea...
Condemnation by Representation
60-1113 §78
What's the Holy Spirit trying to do today? To cut off all that unbelief. "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Trying to bring the people back to the unadulterated Word, where God said like it was in Eden before theology was added. Bring it back the way it was in Eden when man walked with God, and he said ... if the tree didn't look right here, he said, "Be thou plucked up and planted over here." The wind was blowing; he said, "Peace be still," and it stopped. Whatever he was, he controlled al...