<>< Will there be animals in Heaven? How about your most beloved pet you have, or have had here?

Answer 1

God created the animals and said they were good.. therefore, there is no reason why there could not be animals on the new earth. there will most definitely be animals during the millennial kingdom -it is impossible to say definitively whether some of these animals might be pets we had while here on earth. we do know that God is just and that when we get to heaven we will find ourselves in complete agreement with his decision on this issue, whatever it may be.

Answer 2

Yes we will re join our beloved pets in the after life .Heaven is just filled with so many beautiful animals that we have never seen on earth.The animal kingdom is very close to the human kingdom in many ways,as they respond to the astral nature of man.In an evolutionary sense they are seen as our younger brothers and sisters.

Answer 3

There is written that horses are in heaven. But I believe that our pets go to a special heaven just for us when we get there.

I don't believe pets are a trinity compared to one born of God; body, soul & spirit. But animals do have a personal breath & personality, so they either have a soul or a spirit.

Answer 4

I do not believe there will be, but my dad of course who lost his favorite dog a while ago believes he will see him in heaven so I do not tell him "well dad, they do not have souls"
so anyways....I try not to touch this subject, seeing as some people were very close to their pets. However we should be looking forward to be with our Lord and Savior!

Answer 5

It was my assumption (forgive me if I'm wrong)...that Christianity believes animals do not have souls, so I would assume they would not be.

But I've also heard tales of something called Rainbow Bridge from a few people who say animals wait on that bridge for their owner's spirit to pass over so they can all go into Heaven at the same time.

No one knows until we're dead, though.

Answer 6

Elijah was taken up to heaven in a chariot pulled by horses (2 Kings 2:11). There are horses in heaven (Revelation 6:2-8). In fact, there are enough horses for the vast armies of heaven to ride (Revelation 19:11). There are also invisible horses in angelic armies currently dispatched to earth (2 Kings 6:17). It appears the spiritual realm has physical shapes and properties, though normally we can't see it.

In Isaiah 65:17 God refers to creating a New Heaven and a New Earth. In subsequent verses the text seems to move back and forth from the millennial kingdom to the New Earth. God says he will have animals—wolf, lamb and lion among them—in the millennium, the New Earth or both (Isaiah 65:25). Since the passage begins and ends by taking about the new earth, I believe the proper understanding is that animals will be there as well as in the millennium. Since a central aspect of man's dominion in Genesis 1-2 involved naming and governing over animals, and his dominion over the earth will be restored in eternity, it seems clear that animals will be there for him to govern.

Some also argue for animals being in heaven based on Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, which says "Man's fate is like that of the animals...all go to the same place." However, in the larger context of Ecclesiastes Solomon is talking about the outward appearance of death. Men and animals both die and their bodies go to the grave. We can't see anything different on the outside. But Scripture tells us elsewhere that man has an eternal soul. It tells us he goes one of two places at death (Hebrews 9:27-28). Animals are not said to have eternal souls or to relocate when they die. The presumption is that at death they cease to exist.

However, this doesn't mean people's beloved animals won't be in heaven. I once read Billy Graham's response to a little girl's question, "Will my dog who died this week be in heaven?" Graham replied, "If it would make you any happier, then yes, he will be." Animals aren't nearly as valuable as people, but God made them for people and has touched many people's lives through them. It would be simple for Him to recreate a pet, with its specific "personality" in heaven. If doing so would bring his children greater pleasure than the company of new animals he'll create, I don't doubt he would.

Romans 8:18-22 says that the whole creation was subject to suffering and futility because of human sin. The creation groans in longing for the liberation that will come to humans, and thereby to all creation itself. Creation is under man's dominion and will share the rewards of his redemption just as it shared the punishment for his sin. Animals are a central part of that creation, next to man himself the most significant part. After all, besides his wife, Adam was called upon to give names only to one other part of the creation—the animals (Genesis 2:19-20). He worked the garden, but he wasn't invited to name the vegetation. Clearly, the animals had certain qualities that set them above other creation. They were to be special to man, and his naming them makes his connection with them personal.

If the New Earth is all the best of the old earth and more, then we should expect it to contain animals. If animals weren't part of the New Earth, this would seem an obvious oversight. Eden was ruined through sin and will be restored through Christ's reign of righteousness. All that was part of Eden, and then made wrong through the sin of the first Adam, we would expect to be part of the New Earth, made right through the virtue of the Second Adam.

Would God take away from us in heaven what he gave, for delight and companionship and help, to Adam and Eve in Eden? Would he revoke his earlier decision to put animals with man, and under man's care? If he remakes the New Earth with new men (who look very much like the old men, only perfect, without violence), wouldn't we expect him also to make new animals (who will presumably look like the old animals, only perfect, without violence)?

Answer 7

Yes, your pets will be in Heaven when you get there, all life is treasure, there are reasons for its creation.

Answer 8

I was under the impression that all dogs go to heaven. If pets aren't allowed than I'm really glad I'm already going to hell.

Answer 9

No. The point of getting all those animals in Noah's Ark was for food. They didnt want to have fish everyday.

Answer 10

Nope, no pets in heaven