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The examples that you use denoting inanimate objects rejoicing and singing, etc. are anthropomorphisms and are not meant to be taken literally. We use this non-literal language all the time in conversation, and most of the time we are not even aware of it, such as someone saying that he heard it from the horse's mouth.

Again, show me a verse or passage in the Scripture that explicitly says that animals have souls and will be resurrected. Friend, you are engaging in eisegesis. You can play all the mental gymnastics that you want, but it still boils down to the fact that there is not a single verse in the entire Scriptures that supports the view that inanimate objects or animals have souls or will be resurrected.

The Scriptures do say that there will be a NEW Heaven and a new earth. What that new Heaven and new earth will be like is a subject for another discussion.

Faith must rest upon a sure and certain promise. There is no promise anywhere in Scripture that animals or rocks will be in Heaven.

The examples that you use denoting inanimate objects rejoicing and singing, etc. are anthropomorphisms and are not meant to be taken literally.

So you say. I've provided two, one in passing, regarding the very stones crying out, and one in Chronicles, referring to the body as a seed, comparing the different kinds of natural bodies or "flesh" among His Creation, relating those natural bodies, differing in their glory, to celestial bodies, celestial bodies to heavenly bodies, which also differ in their glory, and then plainly stating that there is a natural body, and a spiritual body.

Again, show me a verse or passage in the Scripture that explicitly says that animals have souls and will be resurrected.

Romans 8:18-24

There is no promise anywhere in Scripture that animals or rocks will be in Heaven.

There's no need of a promise regarding animals, because the Bible plainly states that they're already there. As far as rocks, well, what are gemstones if not rocks, Nosterrex?