Most of us have heard the saying "What am I chopped liver?" usually spoken by someone who feels overlooked in favor of someone else. Well, looking through the Bible, it would seem to show that God does not view animals as "chopped liver." In the Garden, they were created even before man, {"And God saw all that He created and it was good."} Jesus was called the lamb of God, and the lion of Judah. He rode an ass, and we also in Revelation hear of Him coming down from Heaven on a white horse. In the flood, besides Noah's family, 2 of every animal were taken, to repopulate their kind. And on into the next dispensation, we read, "the lion shall lay down with the lamb," etc. Animals could even be used for bad purposes, like the snake in the Garden, and the snake received punishment just like the people involved. {"Upon your belly you will crawl, and you will eat dust."} Ok.. so we know animals have a role throughout the Bible. However...we hear of man's fate after death, and man goes either to Heaven or Hell. But animals, that Jesus rides on a white horse down from Heaven, we know there ARE animals in Heaven, BUT..the "iffy" part, they could be "separate" animals that are of the same species but were created in Heaven, or animals that have died {?} While the Bible tells where man goes after death, does it mention anything about animals after death? Death was pronounced on them at the same time Adam fell, IN THE BODY. Anything said about after? "And the One riding on the horse was called Faithful and True."
