ANIMAL SPIRITS
David shows that animals are created and God takes away their breath.
(See Psa. 104:29-30) “Thou taketh away their breath,” and also, “Thou sendeth
forth thy spirit (Spirit in Inspired v.), they are created.” This is spoken of
animals.
“And all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all
the fulness thereof, both men and beasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes
of the sea.” (D.C. 29:24: See D.C. Commentary, p. 24) Paul teaches that
all life—man, beasts, fishes, and fowls—shall be restored: “For the creature
was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God”
(Rom. 8:19-21). Creatures came to the earth unwillingly, not as man, with the
privilege of becoming free from bondage, to partake of the “glorious liberty”
over there as we. (Arch S. Reynolds, God’s Ways are Wonderful,
Comprehensible [Springville, Utah: Arch S. Reynolds, n.d.], 58)
