My immediate thought was that there will be no animals in heaven because my wife has extreme allergic reactions to animal dander.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that she won’t be taking her allergies to Heaven with her!
As for the debate whether animals will be in Heaven, I’m not afraid to say, I don’t know.
Ha! Yes there will be no sickness in heaven - none at all! So that allergies thing won’t matter - Praise the Lord!
Well, no, we don’t KNOW know. Because Scripture does not really comment on this specific issue of “pets in heaven”.
With the description of horses being ridden upon by the Lord Jesus when He returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and also by all His Saints who will be returning with him FROM HEAVEN at that great and glorious time - I believe that is a big “clue” that animals will indeed be in heaven.
But we don’t know specifically about pets.
the person mentioned in this article heading John Fenn - well he had an experience like Paul did in the scripture passage I mentioned....Paul said he saw things that he could not discuss....but do we think Paul is a liar? deluded? mentally ill? on drugs? crazy?
I don’t think so.
Yet Paul tells us he went up to heaven on a “temporary visit” from which he returned and mentioned IN GOD’s WORD which is totally true!
I really have no doubt that John Fenn had a similar experience. Everything he reported about his trip to heaven matches up with an experience that Dr. Eberle had years ago which he wrote about - I think it was called Caught up to Heaven - but not sure.
He fell off a balcony and hit his head on concrete which split open his skull. He was clinically dead. And he described similar scenes as John Fenn describes, the grass and flowers and trees just perfect, and gloriously beautiful, and all exuding this beautiful melody! Yes - singing!!!
Dr. Eberle (he was a physician) reported the same things.
(He also had an experience where he went down into hell - and saw the reality of hell as well - but that was another book).
I just do not recall reading about beloved pets in heaven before.
I think it is a message of loving kindness from our Gracious Lord to all His Beloveds who have such animals——and I have no doubt these loved animals will be in heaven with all who belong to Jesus!
Amen!