God Made the Animals, Why?

By Robert Wyeth

In this book, I have presented to you all the animals, insects, fish and birds that occur in the Bible. I have used several versions of the Bible because none of them are complete. The words of the Bible are written for people, not creatures.

In the beginning, God intended to let the animals go free. He spent two days doing this, putting the creatures in the sea, the birds in the air and the animals on the land. After that, man came along and spoiled it.

There are many animals that run and move about like us. This earth is home to people and animals and man should not interfere with the animals. They have a right to be there.

People are sinful and they think that the animals don't really matter at all. God watches over them and he prepares his books for the judgement where we are all going.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664115064

Robert Wyeth

After university I went to the London Bible College. I expected to prepare for missionary work, but the Lord didn’t want me to go there. I carried on as a project engineer, working in industry. I have been going to church for a number of years, and I have been an elder, so some things are good and the rest of them are bad. One friend commented to me, "After I am dead, I will be an angel. Floating around doing good for anybody." Really? Particularly so with the concept and themes of the Bible. You are children of God, welcomed in the kingdom of God, do you want to be an angel? Remember the good and bad angels. What will happen to the bad angels?

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CONTENTS

Summary

Areas of the Bible

The Coastal Plain

The Central Highlands

The Jordan Valley

The Galilee

The Desert

The Animals in the Area

Domestic Animals

Asses

Donkeys

Cattle

Camels

Dogs

Goats

Heifers

Hens

Horses

Mules

Pigs

Rams

Sheep

Wild Animals

Antelopes

Apes and Baboons

Bats

Bears

Boars

Conies

Dragons

Deer

Foxes

Frogs

Gazelles

Behemoths

Leopards

Lions

Lizards

Mice and Rats

Porcupines

Scorpions

Serpents

Snails

Snakes

Wild Oxen

Wolves

Worms

Insects

Ants

Bees

Fleas

Flies

Gnats

Grasshoppers and Crickets

Hornets

Locusts

Moths

Spiders

Birds

Bitterns

Cranes

Eagles

Hawks and Kites

Ostriches

Owls

Quails

Partridges

Pelicans

Pigeons and Doves

Ravens

Sparrows

Storks

Vultures

Fish

Crocodiles

Fish

Whales

Man and Sin

Fishermen

Hunting

Snares and Traps

Creatures in Pain

What Happens When Man Is Unfaithful?

The Golden Calf

Beasts

Clean and Unclean Food

Strangled Animals

Animals and Birds Should Be Vegetarian

What Happens When an Animal Dies?

God Loves Animals

Most of the verses come from the Holy Bible New International Version (NIV). Copyright 1973, 1978,1984 by International Bible Society.

Copyright 1985 by the Zondervan Corporation.

Anglicisation 1987 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

This edition first published in Great Britain 1987.

Most versions of the Bible look to add to the general knowledge of the Word. The Bible was written many years ago and several words became changed; some sections have disappeared and the scribes wrote down the words as they were able to do so. This is why we need updated versions of the Holy Bible.

The Holy Bible New Living Translation (NLT) was published in 1996 and reprinted in 2004 by Tyndale House Publishers.

The New King James Version (NKJV) was released in 1982. Its Old Testament is based on the Masoretic Text. Its New Testament is based on the Textus Receptus, using alternative readings to the majority of Greek texts.

The New American Standard Version (ASV) was released in 1971. One of the key features of this translation is that it treats the Hebrew, Aramaic and the Greek wording of ancient texts as accurately and as literally as possible.

The book was used by a specialised Christian organisation called the Brethren. J N Darby penned it and he was familiar with both the Hebrew and the Greek texts of the Bible.

The King James Version (KJV) is the most accepted English translation of the Bible and is also known as the Authorised Version. This edition of the Bible was commissioned by King James I in the 1600s.

SUMMARY

Up to two million species of animal have been discovered, there are more waiting for us to identify them. Animals are living beings found in nearly all of the earth’s habitats including the depths of the sea, the freezing poles and even inside other plants and animals.

Creatures are made up of many cells. Most move actively but those that are fixed in one place can move their body parts. They have sensors and nervous systems that enable to them to detect what is happening around them.

They each have a skeleton, whether internal (like a cat), external (like a crab) or hydrostatic (like an earthworm). All creatures feed by taking in food. Some animals kill, some graze and others filter food from water. Food is important as it feeds the body.

All animals respond to their surroundings. Everything that an animal does and the ways it does it make up its behaviour. This improves its chance of survival and enables it to find a mate so that it can pass on its genes to the next generation.

Some behaviours are in-built or instinctive but others are learned during the creature’s life, such as communicating, marking out territory, showing both aggression, social behaviour and living in groups.

God decided to let the water, the air and the land produce living creatures before mankind existed, because that is what God wanted and he said it was very good.

He wanted to see life appear before man came along. I have given you what the Bible teaches about creatures, each one completely different from the others:

Why did God create all the animals?

He decided how the animals should adapt.

He wanted to see what they could do.

He fed them every green plant for food.

He wanted to fill the earth and be content and happy in its perfect existence. But when man came along, he spoiled and ruined it. The system had to be changed by God all at once. Now, animals hunt and kill other animals.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time … We hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans ch.8 v22, v25

In the future, when Christ comes back, after the judgement of the good and the bad, animals will go back to what God intended in the first place.

Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. Isaiah ch.65 v17

The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm not destroy on all my holy mountain. Isaiah ch.11 v8-9

It will be totally different.

AREAS OF THE BIBLE

Much of man’s physical environment is of his own making. Few areas of the earth have borne much more human impact for good and ill. Man has destroyed vegetation cover and trees, induced soil erosion and possibly affected climatic conditions.

The presence of the Israelites and the arrival of the Philistines, with their use of iron, are also significant events. But the Israelites had very different views to the animals that were there in Palestine.

There are two ways or paths across the area of Palestine: one is the Via Maris, which passes near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea; the other is the Kings’ Highway, which passes through Edom and Moab, outside the River Jordan.

The Israelites settled there, between the two roads.

It is the fertile crescent between Egypt and Syria where the flora and soil are delicately balanced. War places the whole area under jeopardy; there was a lot of war in the Bible and the animals badly suffered.