PETS IN HEAVEN - IITB 14.18

 

Chapter 14.18

Pets in Heaven

Will there be animals in heaven? How about dinosaurs, snakes,

Cockroaches, Mosquitoes, spiders, fleas ticks, lice and maggots?

 

 

First Word

     I enter each word study with a presupposition of thought and I let the scriptures confirm or change my Belief System; what I think.  In the beginning Adam was surrounded by animals; then starting over again, Noah was surrounded by animals; and again Jesus was surrounded by animals.  I want to believe that when we get to the new heaven, we will be surrounded by animals, but my BS could just as easily believe that these animals will be on the new earth, and NOT in Heaven.

     I have tried to find scripture about whether our puppies are in heaven or not.  The only scripture I found is in Revelation and it speaks of “creatures” under the earth and in the sea and in heaven; “puppies are creatures”, so it seems they could be there[1]… sort of.

     NOTE: Animals do not have a soul and cannot sin, so why wouldn’t they be in heaven; they were God’s first creation.  God made a COVENANT with Noah and all the animals on the Ark not to destroy them again by water.[2]  So you could presuppose that God loves the animals and all His creations.

     Scripture says that the animals will praise God;[3] Balaam’s donkey certainly could talk.[4]  Scripture says there will no longer be a CURSE;[5] will extinct animals be created new?  This brings up the subject of Dinosaurs, Reptiles, Rats, Cockroaches, Mosquitoes, Lice, and Maggots, do we need them? And that raises another scripture concerning their value; “All things work together for good”.[6]

     Then we come to; if there is FOOD in heaven, will the animals eat, but NOT poop since nothing unclean will ever be in heaven[7]... We certainly will eat in Heaven, it’s in the Book.

ü  Here we go; Isaiah the prophet says there will be animals living at peace with one another,[8] but is this in the NEW HEAVEN or in the NEW EARTH or is this in the MILLENNIUM REIGN of Christ on this present earth.

     Isaiah says there will be NO harm or destruction[9] on God’s Holy Mountain, so this can’t be in the MILLENNIUM REIGN because everything has already been blown up.  The scripture also speaks of “waters of the sea” and there will be NO sea in heaven,[10] so it seems the animals must be in the NEW earth and not in NEW heaven.

ü  Here we go again; the word “creatures” is translated “zoon” which is most often translated in the NT as “animals” as used for sacrifices; it is never translated man or angel  That brings up the question; if God really loved the animals, why were they used in sacrifices?...  Then another’s BS might say; the HONORED sacrificed animals were but a shadow of the final HOLY sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross

     Elijah was taken up to heaven in a chariot pulled by horses[11] and Jesus the Christ returns from Heaven on a horse;[12] of course this could be just symbolic and not literal horses in Heaven.

     God says He is making all things NEW,[13] that would include animals and that “ALL flesh” WILL SEE the salvation of God.[14]  Does that mean; BE A PART OF IT or just SEE IT?  And finally we read that the “creatures”, and “all of creation” as well as “ourselves” are groaning waiting for the redemption.[15]

 

     My BS wants to believe that there are NO animals in heaven, that all creatures and critters are on the earth living in peace during the MILLENNIUM reign of Christ and then on the NEW earth for eternity... except for God’s heavenly creatures they are NOT in heaven, then I really don’t know...

What’s in your BS?

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[1] Revelation 5:13 – There are Creatures in Heaven that sing

[2] Genesis 9:9-10 – God made a COVENANT with every living creature; the BIRDS, the LIVESTOCK and all the WILD ANIMALS

[3] Psalm 148:10-13 – Animals, cattle, small creatures and birds will Praise the name of the Lord

[4] Numbers 22:28 – Balaam’s DONKEY could talk, so he was also capable of praise

[5] Revelation 22:3 – There shall be no more curse.

[6] Romans 8:28 – All things work for the good of God’s plan

[7] Revelation 21:27 – No impurity will ever enter Heaven

[8] Isaiah 11:6-8 – Everything will be at peace with one another wolf & lamb, leopard & goat, lion & calf, bear & cow, cobra & child

[9] Isaiah 11:9 – There will be No harm, NO DESTRUCTION on God’s holy mountain

[10] Revelation 21:1 – No sea in Heaven or Earth

[11] 2 Kings 2:11 - There appeared a chariot of fire, and HORSES of fire and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven

[12] Revelation 19:11 – Christ comes to earth on a white HORSE

[13] Revelation 21:5 – Jesus Christ is making ALL things new

[14] Luke 3:6 – All flesh shall SEE the salvation of God

[15] Romans 8:21-23 – We ourselves groan, the CREATURES and the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now