What you said my friend.
I just read Rev:9-11 and I am pretty sure the “Lamb” it refers to is Jesus but never mind, my dogs are going into the ground with me. The ashes of the ones who are gone are waiting in jars on the book shelf for that day. I hope and pray that they all end up in Heaven with me.
I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who has kept the ashes of their departed pets-their ashes will be scattered with mine when I check out-I don’t want to go to the next life without pets...
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12 In a loud voice they were saying:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and praise!”
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”
Yes, the Lamb here refers to Jesus. But every creature in heaven ... implies, well, creatures _in_ heaven.
That people require salvation— the finished work of Christ on the cross— to enter heaven, does not mean that other creatures will be excluded. It merely means that they do not require salvation.
Will there not be angels there? Do only white horses get a pass?
All of creation was pronounced good. God used a donkey to warn Balaam, knows when sparrows fall. Calls those who care for their animals “righteous.”
He is great, merciful, powerful, worthy of praise.
What you said my friend.