Great verses! Jesus plus nothing for salvation. Jesus plus nothing in Heaven! TR First of all, thank you Yohanan, Donna, Watchman35, Arthur, TR, and Geri for your prayers and support. I really appreciate it! Secondly, it was not my intention to be maudlin and seek sympathy and prayers. The sole focus of my hurtful heart that spilled out of me was to encourage others that have (or will) experience this type of sorrow. Geri: Yes, my avatar is her picture. I may need to change that now that she is gone. TR: I understand that God's Word is very non-specific when it speaks about our family pets being in Heaven, but as Donna and Geri point out, it is insinuated in many portions of scripture. As for me and my house, we would rather have the happy HOPE that our pets are in a better place than to think otherwise. Thank you all, Humbly where the bible is silent, does not mean that God has no opinion or plan, He just has not shared that information with us. we know there are creatures around his throne. It would be a wonderful "surprise!" to go home to heaven and all our beloved pets are at home. We won't know until we get there whether this is so, but I will hope along with other pet owners that it is so until proven otherwise. i like to think that God has pets. have a look in Revelation where the Lord breaks the seals. who says "come". the Lord could have said it Himself, but the living creature says come. Look where the creatures are, around and in the center of the throne. lol, it puts a picture in my mind of God's pets, around Him when He is sitting on the throne and on His lap or sitting next to Him on His throne chair ("in the midst") Rev 4:5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. Rev 6:1 Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” Rev 6:3 When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.” and so on, really, look who says "Come". LOL like a dog that has been trained to bark, or a bird taught to say words. can you imagine God training the creatures to say "come" when Jesus breaks seals? I wonder what He rewarded them with when He was teaching them? thats how under control this all is, God has His pet creatures get to say "Come" when it is time. :mdrmdr: God has names for the creatures too. Yeah, yeah, He does God is into naming Genesis 2:19 Isaiah 40:26 John 10:3 Look at the seals being opened again in Revelation 6, it isn't the same creature saying come. God has numbered them, each to speak "come" when it is their turn! 4 creatures, in turn, opening the first four seals. Rev 6:1, 3, 5, 7 Rev 4:8-10; 5:11-14 they are taught more than one word to say! God gave them the gift of speech to be able to glorify God and enjoy Him forever And this creature carries for the Lord Rev 15:7 , granted it is in more glorified form than a StBernard carrying brandy :mdrmdr: B-)
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
