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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Divine Love
56-0826 §31
Not far down the road, an old Guernsey's there at Henryville one day; this big old bull out here killed this colored man at Burke's farm out here, killed a colored man. Almost killed that West boy the same way. They'e sold him out there on the farm. I didn't know. I was patrolling. Supposed to pack a gun; I didn't have it. One day crossing, I thought I was going to go over there, pray for some sick person. I went across that field not thinking about that bull being in that field. And I got way out in the middle of...
Being led of the Holy Spirit
56-0219 §76
And I went out there with this old possum---God in heaven knows it's the truth---I stood by the old possum. I said, "Dear Heavenly Father, if your poor servant is so stupid till I didn't realize that, and You the loving God, that would lead an ignorant animal, because of the love of her babies and want to raise them. And would lead them here, and I neglected to pray for her. I ask You, forgive me. And I ask, dear Heavenly Father, that in the name of Jesus Christ that You'll let her live then." And friends, as God i...
Blind Bartimaeus
57-0809 §73
See, when you're up there it's wonderful, but it's when you're coming out. Look at Jonah the prophet. Went down with a message of God, and prophesied to the city about the size of St. Louis, Missouri, to a people which didn't know right and left hand. And his message was so forceful until they put sackcloth on their animals. And then when the Spirit left him, he was so depleted till he sit under a little tree and got angry and wanted God to strike him dead because a little cutworm cut the gourd tree down. Is that r...
Perfection
56-0610 §22
And was so low till the littlest man in the city had to look down upon Him---Zacchaeus---and then died for man's sins, come in the way of a stable, poor. The richest (Oh, I hope you get it) the richest become the poorest. Even on a stormy night, said, "The birds have nests, and the foxes have holes, but I don't even have a place to lay My head." The highest of all heavens of heavens, become the lowest of all lows, even to the animal life, was privileged to Him, above Him---as far as comforts of life. Not only that,...
The Angel of God
51-0720 §12
I thought of Jonah, a man of God, the prophet, who was spoke by God and sent down to Nineveh with a message to those people. And God was so determined and filled him so full of His Spirit, till he stayed alive three days and nights in the belly of a fish in the bottom of the sea. He came out with such power in his speech, until the people listened to him and put sackcloth on their animals on the hills. The whole city, so ignorant, one didn't know, some of them didn't know the right and left hand, but repented befor...