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Will There Be Pets in Heaven?

Our family enjoyed the company of a beagle named Lady for eighteen years. Without question, she was the most loyal creature I ever encountered. There hasn’t been even a close second. If heaven could be earned through merit, Lady stands a much better chance than I do of getting into the new kingdom. So, will she, or any beagle for that matter, walk the new earth with believers in Jesus?

God’s vision for life on the new earth is a restoration of his vision that was lost on this earth. So, we can look at Genesis and safely conclude that what was there at that time will be re-created again. During creation, after God separated the waters below from the sky above on the second day, he filled them with all kinds of birds and fish. After God created the land on the third day, he filled it with all kinds of creatures on the sixth day.

Creatures of the sea and oceans and the creatures of the dry land are on this earth as a part of God’s vision. It is safe to assume they will be a part of the new earth. Actually, Isaiah received a vision of the new earth, and he most definitely found various kinds of animal present in it—and behaving in a most interesting way. Not only will there be animals in the new kingdom, but they will get along. Because there will be no death, there will be no predators. Frankly, I am not sure how God is going to manage to control population growth, particularly among rabbits, but I will leave that up to his infinite ingenuity.

This not only suggests that we will have pets in the new kingdom, but the variety of pets will drastically expand. We will not only have dogs, cats, goldfish, gerbils, and parrots for pets, but this verse leads me to believe we may be able to swim with a pool of piranhas or walk with a jaguar. Yikes!

Will my beagle, Lady, be there? Will your pet be there? There is no indication in Scripture that Lady will be re-created, but it certainly isn’t outside the realm of God’s amazing power and lavish love for us.