animals in heaven

⁶The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them. ⁷The calf and the bear will feed together; their young ones will rest together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox. ⁸And a breastfeeding infant will play above the lair of the asp. And a child who has been weaned will thrust his hand into the den of the king snake. ⁹They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain. For the earth has been filled with the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters covering the sea.

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will pasture together. The lion and the ox will eat hay. And dust will be the food of the serpent. They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

¹³And every creature that is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and all that is within the sea: I heard them all saying: “To the One sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing, and honor, and glory, and authority, forever and ever.”

⁶And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”

¹⁹For the anticipation of the creature anticipates the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creature was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but for the sake of the One who made it subject, unto hope. ²¹For the creature itself shall also be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God. ²²For we know that every creature groans inwardly, as if giving birth, even until now;

⁶The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them.

¹¹And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he who was sitting upon it was called Faithful and True. And with justice does he judge and fight.

¹⁰The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

²¹Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

¹⁸I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals. ¹⁹For this reason, the passing away of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of both is equal. For as a man dies, so also do they die. All things breathe similarly, and man has nothing more than beast; for all these are subject to vanity. ²⁰And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together. ²¹Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.

⁹But this is just as it has been written: “The eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for those who love him.”

¹⁴And the armies that are in heaven were following him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

⁷In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you. ⁸Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain. ⁹Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? ¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

²⁴God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it became.