They sit in the musty basement room with bars on the tiny window, turn in their notecards, and march up the steep stairs of the year building to the largest Sunday school room.
Given the honesty of the kids, who ask the questions most adults would like to ask if they had the opportunity, the class is must-see TV. I get it. I had a Welsh Springer Spaniel named Towy as a teenager and young adult. He slept by my bed every night. I was devastated when he died. Will Towy be in heaven? In reality, there are bigger questions beneath this question, making this such an important issue to many. Here, we are liberated from physical pain, sin, the presence of evil, and all effects of the fall.
We shall see the face of Jesus and experience unfettered communion with him. We will be perfectly, euphorically, and eternally happy. The intermediate state, though, is temporary.
At the second coming of Christ, we will descend with Jesus to the earth, where heaven will literally become a place on earth. At that point, the resurrection of the dead will occur and we will gain our glorified bodies in the new heavens and new earth. In the intermediate state, however, we really do not know what our bodily state will be like.
I hate to be blunt, but there is zero evidence either explicitly or implicitly to suggest that our pets will be in the intermediate state. Therefore, it is highly unlikely. In the new heavens and new earth, however, there may be a place for our beloved pets.
