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We love our dogs, cats, birds, fish, horses and other animals. But do they go to heaven when they die? Any child will tell you, “of course, all dogs go to heaven.” But do they really? With the recent death of my beloved dog, who was so much more than a associate to me, I looked more in-depth into this question. I was distressed to think my dog might not get to go to heaven. I couldn’t imagine him not having all the gains heaven could offer a dog like him – sweet green grass to sleep in, cool, clean streams to splash in and drink from, a potpourri of trees to sniff, tons of balls to chew into a pulp, and of course, a great deal of dog friends – old friends he knew here on world and new friends made in heaven. I was sure he “deserved” to be in heaven since he was never mean to anybody a day in his life, was always in a good mood, only threw up on the carpet once, loved me and every one else with an abandon you never find in people, and always forgave me if my bad day to spill onto him. He deserved to be in heaven more than any individual I knew. But did he get in? Dogs were considered to be “unclean” by the ancient Israelites so they were banished to the rubbish dump outside the city walls, and fed on what they could scavenge, including the remains of dismembered crooks (human bodies). The rubbish dump outside Jerusalem was called Gehenna, which is another name for hell. Since the crooks were sinners, by extension the dogs were also because they ate the sinner’s remains. The conception of “clean” and “unclean” means that a great deal of things are unholy or unclean by their nature – like feces or dead bodies – and a lot of things are clean, such as anything purified by water, fire or religious rites. In the Bible (Revelations, Chapter 22), the description of heaven as a physical place says that dogs will be “outside the gates of heaven” with the same crooks they feasted on while on earth. I suppose this is a sort of poetic justice to the crooks to be eaten for eternity by a pack of dogs. This may be where the expression “hounds of hell” originated. I don’t know for sure but it would surely fit. The banishment of my precious canine associate to live outside of heaven’s gates for eternity with criminals, perverts and murderers was distressing until I did a little more investigating. In Acts, Chapter 10, Peter is hanging out on a rooftop praying when he gets very hungry and asks God for a good deal of food. God lowers a cloth filled with all kinds of animals and tells Peter to pick one and eat it. Peter argues with God that the animals being staged are unclean. Remember Peter is an “ancient” Israelite so he is employed to living under the Jewish laws and hasn’t rather got the hang of God’s rule changes beneath the new covenant. God tells him not to call any of the animals unclean because he (God) has declared them clean. So all animals (including dogs) are considered “clean” with the advent of the new covenant God made with the Gentiles (anyone who is not Jewish). So if God declared dogs clean then the “dogs” who are outside of heaven’s gate must be galore type of spirit creature quintessentially designed to torture crooks and not family pets. Another thing you need to know is that there in a literal sense are two heavens – one for the Israelites (God’s chosen people) and one for the rest of us (Gentiles). The description of heaven in Revelations, Chapter 22, is of a city built from gold, silver, pearls and all kinds of precious stones. This is the Israelites’ heaven. Since the Israelites have been given particular status as the chosen people, it makes sense that their heaven is a luxurious palace equivalent in splendor to the palaces of the kings and rulers of their day. The “other” heaven is described as a renewed earth. The world will be brought back to the splendor of the Garden of Eden and this will be a heaven on earth. On the new earth, all persons will love one another and get along, and the lion will lie down with the lamb, which means animals likewise get along and won’t eat each other for food. This is the Gentiles’ promise of heaven. Obviously, it makes more sense to have the animals (including dogs) in the “garden” then in the palace. Only the chosen persons will live in the palace, and the dogs will be in the garden with the Gentiles, who were likewise considered “unclean” by the ancient Israelites! The good news is Gentiles may be made “clean” by accepting Jesus as their personal savior. Without be “saved,” Gentiles won’t go to either heaven, which leaves only one place -hell with those nasty spirit dogs eating you for eternity. God has made it very clear that only “clean” persons and “clean” animals may come into heaven. The mere act of entering heaven means you will be in very close proximity to God. God does not grant anything unclean to be in his presence. We already know God made all animals clean (Acts, Chapter 10) and that those “clean” animals were lowered from heaven, which suggests there are animals in heaven already. Jesus also returns to world to get the “clean” people riding a white horse (another indication of animals living in heaven). So when animals are born to the world they are already clean which means they may return to heaven when they die. So if Gentiles (anyone who is not Jewish) are considered to be unclean by God, how do we become clean so we may get into the restored Garden of Eden (Gentile heaven)? Unfortunately we didn’t mechanically get washed clean like the animals did. Each one of us has to ask for God to cleanse us. We do this by asking God’s son, Jesus, to save us and promising to follow him all the days of our lives. This sounds hard to a good deal of people but it actually rather easy to do. I explain precisely how to do this in my book, Save Yourself! The Plain Truth, if you want more data on salvation. The book also explains other things you need to recognise when it comes to God, like how God owns everything we have. This is why you enter the earthly world with not one thing and leave with nothing, just like animals. For a lot of reason we persons can’t receive that acquiring more things does not make us better people; it just makes us people with more stuff to leave behind. So to sum it all up: God owns everything in heaven and on earth. That means he owned “my” beloved dog but decisive to “lend” me his dog so I could love and take care of his dog for 12 years. When God missed his dog and didn’t want to be divided from him anymore, he took my dog back. I now understand that my dog was on loan from God and that my dog is back with his original master, God. I know my dog is in heaven, in the presence of God, and will be well taken care of forever. It doesn’t mean I’ve stopped missing my beloved dog or that it has gotten any more comfortable passing his bestloved sleeping spot without thinking regarding him, but I take ease in knowing he is in a good place.
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