I recently lost my Dog to Death, one week after X-Mas! A Friend asked me to forward her the Scriptures that I believe confirm Animals may be in Heaven? The Following is my response to Her!
Billie;
That is a Awesome subject. I’m glad you told me to send the other passages. I haven’t studied the Bible like this in awhile! I hope I have properly laid out my reason for believing Animals are in Heaven. The Outline hopefully explains my reasoning and the following Scriptures, by corresponding numbers present my Foundation. I’m sure you’ll get it! Your pet lamb is waiting to see you again!
This almost seems like the start of a Book? Hint! Actually I think I will put it in the Big Book!!! I’m hoping you pick and chose who sees this?
The Passages in a Order of Subject Matter.
1.The Serpent that Lent itself to Satan, and a Ox that Gores people.
A. It seems to me that the Serpent and the Goring Ox had some kind of a Choice???
2.People that eat the Blood of Animals (German Blood Sausage) are going to answer to the Animals that ate their Blood for Food!
A. The Implication seems to be in the Next Life, after one Dies!
3.Balaam’s Donkey did the Speaking, the LORD Opened it’s Mouth!
4.These are things People are not to do to Animal that have been entrusted to them.
A. Chase Birds from the Nest (or Coop) before you take the Young or Eggs
B. Don’t Kill the Mother Bird and the Young at the Same Time. This Brings a short Life!
C. Don’t Boil Meat in it’s Mother’s Milk!!!
D. The Mother gets to keep it’s Newborn for at least 7 Days
E. Don’t Kill the Mother and it’s Young on the same Day!
F. Muzzling a Ox while it works stops it from Breathing and Sweating properly!
NOTE: It looks to me that Animals REMEMBER the Loss of the Young for approximately 24 hours! If people were to Chase the Hens from the Chicken Coop before gathering the Eggs the Chickens wouldn’t Peck at people. The Chickens are mean because they saw people taking their Young (Eggs)!
5.The Blood on the Horns of the Alter, Incense Alter and the Mercy Seat of the Ark Of The Covenant and Voices!!!
A. This part will be the, “Oh Great Scott, He’s out there”, part! The Blood of the Sacrifice was
smeared on the different parts of the Temple STUFF: The Ark, Alter and so on! The Life of the Animals may be some of the Voices Speaking out in Heaven’s Throne Room???
B. I think it’s Clear Jesus’ Shed Blood is what was Spread throughout Heaven’s Temple!
6.These Passages show that God Does Care For Animals!
7.The Question is, do Animals have a SOUL? If Not Are They LOST when they DIE??? It looks to me like Animals have Spirits? Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit (Roo-akh’: Which Animals Have?) shall return unto God who gave it.
I believe Animals will be in Heaven!!!
NOTE: We ALL know Animals are smart and Instinctive! I’ll never be a Animal Rights Activist the way they do it, but I’m confident that those who are cruel to Animals or treat their Animals like Slaves (Basically the whole Dairy Industry) will give an Answer when they enter Eternity!!!
# 1
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Exo 21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
# 2
Gen 9:3-4 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
# 3
Num 22:21-33 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again. And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face. And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me: And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
# 4
Deu 22:6-7 If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Exo 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Exo 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Deu 14:21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Lev 22:27-28 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
Deu 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
# 5
Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Exo 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
Lev 4:7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 16:14-15 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Rev 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Rev 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
# 6
Gen 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 8:15-17 And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Gen 9:811 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Pro 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Mat 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?