What They Think of Us: Will Your Pet Be Cared For After the Rapture?

I believe that we must love and care for our animals.  I believe that the Bible teaches that the Church will one day (though we do not know when and are told not to speculate as to when) be taken up into the air to be with the Lord before the time of the Tribulation begins.  I had never before put these two ideas together. It appears that others have.  See the very partial list below of websites discussing this very idea.

http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/ 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/18/atheists-offer-to-rescue-christians-pets-after-judgment-day/ 

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/ 

http://gizmodo.com/5803629/crazy-people-drive-post-rapture-pet-pickup-boom 

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_08/b4167070046047.htm 

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/offbeat/atheists-offering-post-rapture-pet-care-dpgoha-20110518-fc_13255888 

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/19/business/la-fi-rapture-20110519 

http://www.postrapturepetcare.com/ 

Several companies have sprung up promising, for a fee, to care for the the animals left behind by Christians after the Rapture.  Some of the companies say they have been organized by Christians, others by atheists.  All say that the people who will care for the animals are animal lovers and confirmed atheists.  We “will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward”

Some Christians are using the services. The Eternal Earth Bound Pets company says that they have 259 subscribers who have paid $135.00 each for the service.

This sounds like a sarcastic swipe at Christians, but the people at the British company Post Rapture Pet Care say that "This is not a joke. We feel very strongly about pet care and want to offer the best possible services to British pet owners. Feel free to get in touch at pets@postrapturepetcare.com  for more info."

The fact that some atheists do take this to be a joke is evidenced by the statement of someone going by the name of Flange Wogskit Bardgeholly at the RawStory.com site.  "Dint yo momma tell you not to make fun of the cripples?"

If the atheists involved with these companies really are serious about this, I would have two things to say to them:
1. Be sure to honor your committment.
2. Realize that when this happens, you will know the truth and you will have a momentous decision to make.

Bird in a Mud Puddle

Yesterday morning I was walking my dog.  She is totally deaf and has epilepsy, so, when she stiffened, I thought she might be having a seizure.  Then I saw that she was in a "What is that???!!!!" stance.  In front of us was a sparrow splashing and thrashing about in a puddle of muddy water.  The bird wasn't crazy, injured, or frightened.  It was taking a bath.

Birds take water and/or dust baths to clean themselves and to discourage the presence of itchy mites and fleas on their bodies.

Sparrows taking a dirt bath

Wild blue tits taking a water bath

This little poem is quoted from http://blogs.cbn.com/soultransformation/archive/2010/05/28/why-the-birds-dont-worry.aspx

“Said the Robin to the Sparrow:
‘I should really like to know,  Why these anxious human beings,
Rush about and worry so.’
 
Said the Sparrow to the Robin:
‘Friend, I think that it must be,
That they have no Heavenly Father
Such as cares for you and me’” 
(Elizabeth Cheney, Streams in the Desert) 

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."  Matthew 6: 25-34.

We live in a world full of tornadoes, earthquakes, civil wars, terrorism, hatred, and strife.  Many of us walk around with an underlying state of stress,  We might profit by actually listening to Jesus and looking at the birds.