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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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...
When love projects
56-0218B §23
And just then something said, "Well, you were talking yesterday about love. And this possum loves her babies so much, I sent her up here to your door; and she's laid here for twenty-four hours, her turn to be prayed for." I waited, I said, "Heavenly Father, if the rejecting of a human being for the love for her baby, and You put love in that animal which could not ... hasn't got a soul, it had to be guided by the Holy Spirit up that lane, everywhere and from the woods, and turn into the only place that had a gate o...
Expectation
54-1206 §14
I stood by his grave in London, England, not long ago, and I looked down there, and I thought, Yes, Mr. Cowper. I just read his history. You know, after he had inspiration, and wrote that song... When he was up there it was all right, but when he begin to come out of it, he tried to find the river to commit suicide; it was too foggy; the driver couldn't get him to it to commit suicide after writing that famous song: There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins; when sinners plunged beneath the...
The uncertain sound
55-0731 §78
What do you think Jesus Christ did? And why can't you be loyal to Him, and to forsake your selfishness and your indifference? Can't you forsake your church, petty things, and come to Him and be loyal? That poor ignorant possum, and the Holy Spirit... And me up there on vacation, not even prayed up, and that poor little lady possum laid at my doorstep. When the sun was hot, she laid there faithfully. When the night come, her eyes would come open, she could see. But the Holy Ghost wouldn't let her go. She laid there...