FROM THE TREE TO THE CROSS

Will we see our precious and beloved pets when we get to heaven?

Traditionally the answer is no and without any reason or explanation, but I am not a Traditional person so I will give a very untraditional answer of a most definitely, and without a doubt yes they have and do and will go to heaven and I will follow it with a very untraditional explanation of why.

I have been a pet owner all of my life and I have never viewed or treated my pets as an object or treated them as pets.

I have always let them grow and develop into their own little unique and individual personalities and loved them for their strengths and their weaknesses just as they have loved me without conditions, and yes I can say without a doubt that my furry, finned and feathered family members have truly loved me because through my example of showing them love they have learned what love is.

The reason I know they have learned to love me and why is because I have studied the bible and many other books and developed a much deeper understanding of our relationship with God and what his original plan for us was before it got detoured into this terrible experience of separating the wheat from the chaff so to say
The good from the evil
The Abel’s from the Cain’s

In the beggining as in the book of Genesis beggining, God created man in his image as in to have the ability to have understanding and forethought and have a desire to create and grow things and share love with others.
God loved and cared for man and provided for him all that he needed he only asked that he in turn care for the animals and the garden.
You could say that this is a circle of Love that was meant by design for love to be shown to others who then show love to lesser beings and creatures until eventually the love is returned back to God who first gave it because God is Love and thereby the creator and first source of Love.

God because he is Love did what love does which is to not be selfish but selfless and shared his love by creating a universe capable of life and love by sharing a part of himself so that by the continual giving and returning of love the circle would not become stagnant and die but be alive with life and complete with love.

That all sounds pretty hippie I know
But part of answering the question of do animals go to heaven involves understanding that everything is part of God and his energy, spirit and love.
I don’t pretend to know or understand what part of himself he used to create us and everything we see
I only know for certain that it traces back to his spirit of love.
We are all created by a perfect creator a perfect source of the beggining of love but we are not perfect, we are quite imperfect but through experience and relationships we become better and better everyday when we allow love to pass through us and on to the next person and especially when it is to a lesser creature such as a pet.

Jesus gave us the perfect example of this in his life and eventual self sacrifice at the cross.
His life was the ultimate living example of humility and love because as the Son of God he was more important than anyone who ever lived and yet instead of becoming a king and ruler and demanding power and authority over all lesser beings, he became the servant to his own creation and showed them his example of love by taking their sickness upon himself and by doing so healing them of their infirmities, and then taking on our very sins upon himself at his execution on a cross that was the creation of the very men whom he created.
The creator himself allowed his own creation to disgrace and murder him with the ultimate example of shame and pain of his time which was to be nailed naked to a tree that men shaped into a cross for the sole purpose of displaying the punishment of a slow and painfull death for all to see and remember forever.
He could have destroyed them instantly or in the very least put them on a cross to suffer the same fate as he did but he didn’t
Instead he transformed that cross of sin and shame into the cross of
Glory and Grace an everlasting symbol and sign of the unfathomable love of God
By dying an eternal death in our place and paying the price for us that was required of sin which is death eternal.
Yep it sounds complicated
How did Jesus die an eternal death for us in our place but be resurrected again.
He actually explained it in John 10:17-18
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

Even if we do not fully understand his sacrifice for us we are expected to at least follow in his example which was to love and serve others especially those less fortunate then us, and by doing so we share the love that God freely gave to us so that they can in turn learn from it and share love with others.

Jesus gave many parables about this very subject of being humbled and the master being the servant of those who are lesser because this is a requirement of love and being selfless.
Just as God created man to be more Intelligent and capable then animals, It was man’s responsibility to care for them and to teach them love through example by serving them instead of being selfish and making them serve us.

It’s unfortunate that the opposite of God’s plan is what we have done and continue to do with the entire world and it’s creatures but we are unfortunately stuck on this path of sin and selfishness until it leads to our own demise from self destruction.

Animals unfortunately are the innocent who suffer because of our choices and the world we have created
But no matter what we do or believe we can not change the fact that all energy and mater came from God and will return to God in the end, we are powerless to change this
This includes animals both wild and pets.

But what we can change is that by sharing our life and love with animals we form a bond with them that God intended for all of his creation to share and when we do so we allow them to become a part of our journey and experience to completing the circle of Love that leads back to God.

The Father who is God loved the Son who is Jesus who loved us enough to save us from death by sharing his love and giving up his life as proof of that love.
They would not deny us the bond that was formed with another of his creations that we shared his love with.

So yes our pets that we truly loved unsefishly and bonded with we will see again in heaven

Hope this has helped any who were genuinely seeking and answer to this question.

There are not very many examples of scripture that pertain to animals or pets in heaven but here are a few for reference.

Isaiah 11:5-7
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Revelation 19
11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14
And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.