Will there be pets in Heaven?

Bill Green
Livingston, Texas

Regarding your request about pets at the Resurrection, the following information will certainly bless your heart.

I believe that everything on earth is a picture or pattern of things in heaven. Thus, during the millennial reign of Christ, the earth is filled with tamed and beautiful animals of all descriptions (Isaiah 11:6). This is true because wherever God dwells the beasts of the earth are plentiful. Also, since earth is a pattern of what’s in heaven, then God’s eternal home on earth after the one thousand years must certainly be filled with these little loyal friends.

The following is what I originally wrote to those who’s hearts were heavy because they lost their pets in death.

The Bible does not specifically state anything concerning animals being taken to heaven upon death. However, since God promises that He will not withhold any good thing from those who love Him --- I believe that a simple request to the Saviour will make loving petitions for our pets a fulfilled request instantaneously. There are multitudes whose beloved pets went the way of all flesh and died. God is able to bring them back from dust and ashes as simply as He does humans when the dead in Christ rise (I Thessalonians 4:16-18). However, their restoration will occur only after believers arrive, and request their pets. To sum up everything I have said, I believe that we will have the animals we loved with us in heaven, not because of salvation (a spiritual experience), but because our requests produce God’s re-creation or restoration of our faithful, loving and loyal furry friends. (Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ephesians 3:21; Luke 1:32,33)

Now God has shown me new light after a few hundred hours of research. As I restudied this subject I discovered scores of outstanding theologians who went so far as to teach the literal resurrection of animals (Romans 8:19-23). In my video, entitled Animals in Heaven, this truth is documented with scores of additional Bible verses that prove our pets will be with us.