Pets in heaven
- I enter each word
study with a presupposition of thought and I let the scriptures confirm or
change what I think.
- In the
beginning
Adam was surrounded by animals; starting 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 I
could just as easily believe that these animals will be on the new earth.
- 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… sort of.
- Animals
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
- Scripture says that the animals will praise God.
Balaam’s donkey certainly could talk.
- Scripture says there
will no longer be a curse; 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”.
- Then
we come to;
if there is
- Here
we go;
Isaiah the prophet says there will be animals living at peace with one
another, 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 on God’s
- 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’s never translated man or angel - That
brings up the question; If God really loved the animals, why were they
used in sacrifices and then another 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 and Christ returns
from Heaven on a horse; of course this could be just symbolic and not
literal horses in Heaven.
- God
says he
is making all things
- And
finally
we read that the “creatures”, and “all of creation” as well
as “ourselves” are waiting for the redemption.
- GOOD GRIEF…. I still
don’t know.
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven
and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them,
singing:
NIV
Isa 11:6-8 – Everything
will be at peace with one another
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the
leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the
yearling together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear, their young
will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
NIV
Isa 11:9 – No harm, no
destruction
9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all
my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as
the waters cover the sea. NIV
Rom 8:28 – All things work for the good of God’s plan
28 And we know that all things work together
for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose. KJV
Rev 21:1 – No sea
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer
any sea.
NIV
27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor
will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names
are written in the Lamb's book of life. NIV
Gen 9:9-10 – A covenant
with the living creatures
9 I now establish my covenant with you and
with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was with
you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those
that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth.
NIV
Ps 148:10-13 – Animals
will Praise the name of the Lord
10 wild animals and all cattle, small
creatures and flying birds,
11 kings of the earth and all nations, you princes
and all rulers on earth,
12 young men and maidens, old men and children.
13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, NIV
Num 22:28 – Balaam’s donkey could talk
28 Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth,
and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these
three times?" NIV
2 Kings 2:11 - Horses in Heaven
11 … there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses
of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind
into heaven. KJV
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a
white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, KJV
Luke 3:6 – All flesh shall
be saved
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of
God. KJV
Rev 21:5 – Christ is
making ALL things new
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I
make all things new. KJV
Rev 22:3 – No more curse
3 And there shall be no more curse: KJV
Rom 8:21-23 – The
creatures and all of creation
21 Because the creature itself also shall
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of
the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans
and travails in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also,
which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
KJV
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