What Happens to Animals?

I believe that there are some very important lessons that we can learn from these verses; ‎lessons which are very good for all men to learn, if they are ever to come to know God and the ‎meaning of life. Certainly we must acknowledge that all that Solomon has said here is true; ‎but we must use it to draw the right conclusions about the differences between men and ‎beasts. We must not rest in existential conclusions alone, or we will not glorify our God who ‎has made us to differ from the beasts. And so, I believe that it is only right, in our study this ‎afternoon, that we will add to Solomon’s conclusions, more spiritual light which we will find ‎in the rest of Scripture. And this I will present to you, so that you will understand the truth ‎about the eternal destiny of man. 1st of all - We will examine the fact that both man and the ‎animals die, and because of that, man has no advantage over the animals. And then 2nd – We ‎will look at whether the spirit of a man (a human being) goes upward to heaven, or downward ‎to the earth, and why. I want to show you, in each of these points, that the only thing that ‎causes us to differ from any other person, or even from the animals themselves, is the grace ‎of God which we find in our Lord Jesus Christ.‎