Hey guys, Welcome back to my channel.
Today is another video request. And a question we got is... will our pets go
to heaven or do pets go to heaven when they die? Now first, just so you understand, that I
understand where you're coming from. I love my pets.
Togo and Chibi. They're our fur kids and we
love them immensely, like our own children. But we can't go according to our feelings.
We need to go according to the truth of Scripture, right?
And so let's take a look at this. When we look at the Book of Isaiah 11,
it says this will happen in the end times, the second coming of Jesus.
[Isaiah 11:4-5]
So here, we clearly see that God is righteous and that He will make
righteous decisions, so we can trust Him. And now it says this... the wolf shall
dwell with the lamb. Why is this important?
Because that means that there will be animals in the new heaven and the new earth.
[Isaiah 11:6]
Woof, that's going to be interesting. You're going to have some interesting pets,
let's say, where a little child can lead lions.
[Isaiah 11:7]
In other words, the lion, predators ... they're not going to hunt deer anymore.
They're going to eat plants.
[Isaiah 11:8-9]
Alright, so the Bible does say that there will be animals in the new heaven and the
new earth and this for me is very interesting. It's going to be very interesting to explore
this new world and also to walk with lions and predators and they're not going to eat you because
they will not be evil. They will be good.
And then there might be other species as well that we've never seen before and some
of those who already went extinct. So maybe they'll be different
types of dinosaurs or other animals. It's going to be very very interesting to
see what God is going to create and you need to understand that before sin came into the world,
with the Garden of Eden, when God created humans but also the animals - they were good.
[Genesis 1:25]
So before sin came into the world, it was perfect.
So the animals graced together. Lions didn't eat deer and that's
going to be the exact same thing that is going to happen in the new heaven, the new earth.
And I can't wait for that. But, what about our pets?
Well, the Bible doesn't say that our pets will go to heaven.
A lot of people say that, but they can't say that for sure,
because they don't know if that's the truth. And then some other people, they say, no,
pets are not going to be in heaven. But that's not what the Bible says,
It doesn't say your pets won't be in heaven. So we can't say that either.
What we can say is we're not sure God will decide and his decision will be righteous.
We do know God. Deuteronomy 32:4 says:
[Deueteronomy 32:4]
So we can trust that God will make the right decision every single time about
everything and that includes the animals as well.
Now, there's a huge difference between us and animals.
Like us, they have a soul, with their own will, emotions, and intellect, personality.
But, they do not have a spirit or the ability to receive a new spiritual nature like we do.
God gave that to us humans to have a relationship with Him, to accept Him as our Lord and Savior,
and receive that spiritual nature. You see, we are all born in sin.
David said, in sin did my mother conceive me. Right, and we're spiritually dead.
We don't know who God is, right? We are born into this sinful world
with our fleshly sinful nature. Your parents never had to tell you,
hey, you need to be naughty because you just were. They always had to tell you to be good and that's
because there's this wall between us and God. God, who is Holy, righteous, perfect.
And us, who are sinful. And that wall is sin.
Because God can't have a relationship with us when we live in sin.
But when we accept Him as Lord and Savior, because of what He did for us on the cross,
that wall between us and Him breaks down. Because of Jesus Christ.
His blood on the cross and then when we accept Him, we become new creations.
So you're not the normal human with just your soul and body anymore.
Now you have a spiritual nature within you. Remember John 4:24 says:
[John 4:24]
[1 Corinthians 2:14]
So there's also a difference between humans with a spiritual nature and humans who don't.
And we as reborn Christians, we receive the Holy Spirit,
the spiritual nature when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
[Ephesians 1:13-14]
[John 6:63]
Now, even though both us humans and animals,
both of us we received the breath of life from God, to be able to live and breathe,
right, and He sustains us, but it is only us humans who are made in the image of God.
And it is also only us who will be judged when we die.
[Hebrews 9:27]
So, we don't know if our pets will be with us in heaven, but there's only one way to find out.
That is, if you are a true reborn Christian, you die and you enter eternal life and then
you will see if they're there or not. You see, we won't understand everything
there is while we are here in this temporary imperfect world, right?
We can only understand what God allows us to understand and already allowed through Scripture.
But one day, then, when we enter eternal life, many things will become clear.
[1 Corinthians 13:12]
Let us trust God. Let us surrender everything
in our lives under His Lordship. And that includes our pets.
Now, to help you trust and surrender to God's perfect plan, watch this video here,
I'll see you there, remember to subscribe, and never forget that God loves you.
And I love you, too. Bye.