Does God Care About Pain Animals Endure? ~ by Robert J. Wieland Are you aware of the enormous amount of animal suffering there is in this world? If you have watched the TV documentaries of droughts in Africa, and seen those helpless hippos and crocodiles and even lions dying of thirst, with even their mud holes drying up; and if you have seen where some of our own animals exist in terrible conditions--yes, you must be aware. Romans discusses this pain: We know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth. All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal His sons (8:22, 19, Good News Bible). The King James Version is more explicit: it waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. ... The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now (vss. 19, 22). Does God care about the pain that animals endure? The Bible says yes: He rebuked Balaam for beating his donkey (Num. 22:26-33); men and animals are in Your care (Psalm 36:6, GNB); a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast (Prov. 12:10, KJV). Innocent people suffer too, up to the present time! Look where you will, flora and fauna with humanity await deliverance from the curse that sin has brought upon the planet; they wait for the manifestation of the sons of God, an interesting phrase. We must be reverent, and tread softly; they wait for the 144,000 to be manifested or revealed. They wait for a people to choose to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, who will learn to sing as it were a new song that has never yet been sung on earth, a people of whom the Father can honestly say, in their mouth [is] found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God (Rev. 14:1-5). How much longer must the whole creation groan and travail?
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 06:17:40 +0000
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