But it says in that passage that not just human beings but the entire creation-well then, who does that leave that has suffered on this earth? Animals will experience the resurrection of the sons of God. So animals suffer death because humans sinned, and humans suffer death. Creation fell on the coattails of human beings. When God remakes the earth, why would he not remake it with animals? Well, we know He will for sure because of these passages that have animals on the new earth, but also because Romans 8 says the entire creation has fallen. In verse 25 of Isaiah 65, 'the wolf and the lamb shall graze together, the lion will eat straw like the ox,' and then in Isaiah 11, it's got leopard, goat, calf, cow, bear, ox, lion, cobra.

What we find in Isaiah 65 is the wolf and the lamb-and he specifically calls this the New Earth, so this is not just the Millennium. This is stated again and again in Genesis 6 through 9 and the Flood account. With the Flood, God makes a covenant not only with people but with animals. And it's magnificent and wondrous that the first responsibility God gave to human beings along with to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth was to manage and care for animals.

Those living beings, the first living beings that God made, animals. 'Look at Genesis 1 and 2, and the highlight of all creation built up to is people. Alcorn, who has studied the subject of heaven for years, says he did not originally believe that, but that studying Scripture changed his mind.ĭuring a Q&A session recorded on video, Alcorn makes the following statement: Bible teacher Randy Alcorn says that he expects pets who have died on Earth will be reunited with us when God creates the new heaven and the new earth.

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