Is everything in creation under the bondage of corruption and death?
Yes, Scripture indicates the entire creation is presently under the bondage of corruption, sin, and death. Death rules supreme throughout the animal kingdom and all created things, which groan and travail under the curse while awaiting deliverance into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Les explains that the creation shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, which is what we are living under today. He says everything is under this bondage of corruption, sin, and death; everything dies, whether it is in the animal kingdom or wherever, and death rules supreme it seems. Verse 22 says the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Les stretches thinking about the term whole creation: it is not just man, but everything—flowers, birds, trees, animal kingdom, and rocks. He illustrates from the triumphal entry that if the people were shut up, the rocks would take their place in crying out, showing creation is aware of the Creator. All creation waits for the great day of deliverance from the curse, and not only they, but believers also long for it.