CHAPTER VI 



ANIMALS PROMISED A PARADISE — COMMANDED 

 TO PRAISE THEIR CREATOR 



Animals to be restored to primeval peace and happiness — Are 

 seen in heaven — Two passages of Scripture usually not properly 

 interpreted. 



In the promise of a new heaven and a new earth 

 God has given a plain revelation to man of the 

 restoration of all animals. In this new Garden 

 of Eden all things are to be restored to their 

 former harmony ; there will be perpetual peace 

 and happiness, and all shall dwell together in love. 

 The animal creation shall again gladden a new 

 Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called 

 them by name, and caressed them and mingled 

 in their society. 



The Bible everywhere indicates that the new 

 earth will be a counterpart of the old before the 

 fall, so we must conclude that lower animals, who 

 were created before man and have been his com- 

 panions before and since the fall, will be restored 

 with him in the "new creation." The inspired 



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