No Dirty Dogs!

Throughout the Scriptures unholy people are branded, to their everlasting contempt with the worst appellations. They are the most dangerous, and the most harmful beings in the world, and therefore are emblemized by ...

lions for they are cruel, Psalm 22:21; by bears for they are savage, Isaiah 11:7; by dragons for they are hideous, Ezekiel 29:3;  by wolves for they are ravenous, Ezekiel 22:27;  by dogs for they are snarling, Revelation 22:15; by vipers and scorpions for they are stinging, Matthew 12:34, Ezekiel 2:6;  by spiders and cockatrices for they are poisoning, Isaiah 59:5;  by swine for they are intemperate, Matthew 7:6.

Remember this: that all these stinging expressions and appellations which disgrace and vilify unholy people, were inspired by the Holy Spirit and published in His holy Word. The glutton is depicted as a swine; the fraudulent person is depicted as a fox; the lustful person is depicted as a goat; the backbiter is depicted as a barking cur; the slanderer is depicted as an asp; the oppressor is depicted as a wolf; the persecutor is depicted as a tiger; the seducer is depicted as a serpent.

Do you think that God admit such vermin as unholy people are to eternally inhabit His holy Heaven? Surely not! God has long since resolved upon it that no unclean beasts shall enter into Heaven that no dirty dogs shall ever trample upon that golden pavement! Certainly God will not allow such beasts and toads and snakes and serpents to forever live with Him! Heaven is a too holy place to admit such vermin to inhabit!

[Thomas Brooks]

Revelation 21:27 …  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 22:15 …  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.❤