Will there be pests and parasites in Heaven?

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For the last 5 weeks I’ve been dealing with constant “pest” problems. First my baby got an infection, needing antibiotics, which led to 3 weeks of diarrhea. Then the dog brought ticks into the house, and we are also battling a cricket and cockroach problem in our kitchen. I’m busy and stressed out trying to keep the house clean and pest-free, and worried about the diseases some of them may carry. It’s made me wonder what Heaven is like - is it “pest-free”, or if there are bugs there do they leave us alone? It may be a silly question, but at this point being free from them sounds heavenly…
 
Since bugs, or even animals for that matter, don’t have souls, it is safe to assume they won’t be in Heaven.
 
Well, bugs and animals, and even plants do have souls. However, not the same kind as people. A human, rational soul can survive without its body. THe souls of other living things are entirely tied to the body, if the body is destroyed so is the soul. So, no plants animals, bacteria or bugs are in Heaven, which has only souls and other immaterial creatures like angels.

But, since Heaven is not our final destination, you have more to worry about. We only wait in Heaven until the second coming and the New Creation. That’s when we all get our bodies back and the material world is reformed in perfection. And there may indeed be animals there, an bacteria and so on too. It is also hard to say what they would be like in that context - sine the lamb will lay down with the lion, will we be cozying up with the strep infection? No one really knows.
 
Are you seriously telling me that I run the risk of meeting my estranged wife…sorry Father in Heaven just couldn’t resist that one
 
God made pests and bugs too. Perhaps they are experienced negatively only in this world.

In her memoir of World War II The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom relates the misery of flea infestation in the barracks of Ravensbruck concentration camp. Corrie and her sister were imprisoned at Ravensbruck because they were hiding Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem, Holland house.

Remembering the Biblical injunction to “give thanks in all circumstances” Corrie’s sister, Betsie, insisted upon thanking God in prayer for the the fleas. Corrie writes she cooperated very half-heartedly.

While Corrie was forced to do heavy labor on roads, Betsie did lighter inside work. As she did so, Betsie led worship and prayer with other inmates, and it was a great joy and comfort to all.

Later, they discovered the inmates were able to worship freely within the barracks only because the guards were unwilling to enter. Why?

The fleas.

Pax,

Dettingen
 
That is interesting, I think that since all the creatures were created by God, their original goals were not to harm humans, in Eden lions did not eat humans, mosquitoes did not give malaria and so on, so I think that even if they are animals in heaven they will not harm us.
 
I have often wondered that same thing about parasites when I get to Heaven
 
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