More questions....:)

[cares4critters]

I'm curious about a couple of things.

One: Do you believe that our pets or companion animals will be in heaven?

Two: Do people have to wait to see heaven after they die or do they go straight there?

I ask the first one because I hope and pray that I can spend eternity not only with God but with my animals too. I want to believe in the "Rainbow Bridge."

The second one I ask about is because I have heard a couple of different things.

I just need some clarification on this.

Thanks so much.

Blessings

Jen

[Work in Progress]

I believe there will be animals in heaven. I have no idea if any of our personal pets will be there, the Bible says nothing about that.

Heaven - the Bible says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". However, there are also places in the Bible that make me question whether we will immediately be in Heaven after death. I really don't know for sure.

[RustyAngeL]

You bet I believe we will see your animals again. I had a dream one time just after my father went home to be with the Lord. I had lost a dog just a few months before my dad died. I was having a very hard time. I was a daddys girl and even though I knew my dad was with the Lord I was have a very tough time. I had lost my dad and my little dog Punkin. I saw my dad in a dream, sitting in a beautiful place and Punkin was sitting on his lap. Both looked healthy, and young again. I knew they were both OK and that helped me so much. Yes I know we will see them again. And yes I think that when we die we go home to be with the Lord at that moment.

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings Cares4critters,

One: Do you believe that our pets or companion animals will be in heaven?

Eccl 3:18-21 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 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. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Two: Do people have to wait to see heaven after they die or do they go straight there?

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Are the Acts verses below the fulfillment of John 14:3?

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Acts 7:55-60 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[Guest Christian Counselor]

A television minister named Jack van Imp e has recorded a video tape on the subject of animals,trying to prove from Bible quotes that they will be in heaven.I thought the whole thing was really silly and his Bible verses convinced me of nothing.However the Holy Spirit has told me that his videotape is accurate.Our pets will be in heaven with us!.That's really great news to me if God can figure out some way to get my dog to stop barking.

To comfort people most ministers teach that upon death we go to heaven immediately.The problem is that the Bible states that when people die they pass into a sleep-like state that will last until Jesus returns at which time the "dead in Christ" will be brought back to life to meet Him in the clouds (the rapture).Jesus' statement about being in paradise today is frequently quoted but we learn by reading further that after He came back to life,Jesus did not go to heaven immediately and even had to tell his disciples not to touch his body for that reason.For this reason,it looks like the "paradise" he spoke of,referred to the sleep-like state the Bible speaks of in other verses.

[hmh]

When we go to heaven and our pets are there, I'm going to get ran over by two horses, several dozen rabbits, a bunch of ferrets, and countless cats and dogs. And probably a few birds will be in there also. I just hope I don't have to clean up after all of them!