📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Psalm 36:6 “.... You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.” “Preserve” means to keep from decay. I claim this verse to mean all those who are saved and their beloved pets will live again in heaven. In the Millennium the curse is lifted ... the wild animals will all be tamed and chances are they will talk again. Isaiah 11:6 “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.” Since the curse is uplifted does that mean all the people and animals born in the Millennium Kingdom will not have any more birth defects? If so, wouldn’t that mean all sheep would be eligible for the slaughter and you no longer have to be picky in choosing the one without spot or blemish since they all will be perfect? Can you imagine when the priest(s) have to kill a lamb for the blood sacrifice ... won’t that lamb be talking back and saying “Oh no, me .... why me?” How hard is that going to be for the priest to hear that? :wacko: Also, since “the Lord, preserves both people and animals” ... just wondering if the slaughtered sheep will eventually live again later on? Perhaps be rebirth and then later say .... hi, I’m back! B-) Or not? Just wondering your thoughts? :feedback Amen to that. Again I'm not here to minimize or judge the relationships we have with pets, it's not in my pay grade! TR I agree we are to love the Lord God with all of our soul and put Him first. There are people though who have put their spouses, children and pets as #1 and made them their idol and that is wrong. As a pet owner, I have prayed and asked for a dog to take care of in these last days and the Lord provided me with the perfect gift to love and to be a steward over and I am grateful for this precious gift. I like both Toy Fox Terriers and Dalmatians and this little guy the Lord wants me to take care is a Toy Fox Terrier but is rocking some serious freckles of a Dalmatian. The way I look at it ... paradise with all the fruit trees, flowering bushes, plants, rivers, ocean etc. would be lacking if animals and birds weren’t a part of it. I firmly believe the earthly Garden of Eden is a scaled down version of the glorious heavenly paradise that is waiting for us. I Cor 2:9 “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Psalm 50:10-11 “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine." Proverbs 12:10 “Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast ...” ———————————— -Fair Use- In love, we can “agree to disagree and to wait and see” :whistle: My final word on this matter because this is a hard saying. And is only for those who can receive it! Again the Word tells us to love God, our neighbor and ourselves as God loves us, love our enemies and one another. Then the Word tells us not to love the things of this Earth. We are to have regard for the animals in our care, but never are we told to love them. TR Geri7, all that you bring to the table is true. No doubt there will animals during the Millenium. I am not arguing against animals in Heaven or in God's workmanship of them. The animal realm is truly a great part of the Lord's creation and eschews His creativity! The animal realm as a whole is a wonder. Indeed even in prophetic language animals are highlighted! This is not only an emotional issue for many, but is also a politically correct one here on the Earth at this time. And for those that desire to have pets to love in Heaven that would be a joy! Truly not wanting to take anything away. For me it's all about balance and perspective as these have been skewed in this life. And if we are quoting scripture, we are instructed to love one another. TR
From All-Creatures.org
Animals are included in God's Covenant with Noah in Genesis 9:5-17. It is prophesied in Hosea 2:18 that God will affirm His New Covenant with animals. “And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.” Ecclesiastes chapter 3:19-20 says that animals are equal with humans. “For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” Otherwise, how could they have atoned for man, for a season (until Jesus came, who's blood is superior in totally redeeming animal and man) in the Old Testament blood sacrifices. The fact that Hosea 2:18 says that God will include animals in His New Covenant and Romans 8 says that they are sub-heirs of the grace of life too, and we see a picture of their peaceful lives in the prophesies of Isaiah concerning the Messianic kingdom in Isaiah chapter 11, ought to prove that they have a right to a peaceful life here without fear of harm from mankind.
