The Master Unicorn

By Chester R. Owenby

Today, there are many attacks against the Word of God, but I believe in the authority given to us. The Bible is not referring to the mythological unicorn, the horse-with-a-horn creature of fairy tales and fantasy literature. In my study of the unicorn, I am led to believe that it was a wild ox. I believe it was a real creature of great strength.

In Numbers 23:22 and 24:8, God compares His own strength to that of a wild ox. Deuteronomy 33:17 is a part of Moses, blessing on Joseph. He compares Joseph's majesty and strength to a firstborn bull. Moses prays for Joseph's military force, picturing it like a unicorn (wild ox) goring the nations.

In Psalm 22:21, David asks God to save him from the powers of his wicked enemies, described as "the horns of the unicorns." In Psalm 29:6, the power of God's voice shakes the earth, causes the great cedars of Lebanon to break and "skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." In Psalm 92:10, the writer confidently describes his military victory as "the horn of an unicorn."

In Isaiah 34:7, as God is about to unleash his wrath upon Edom, the prophet Isaiah draws a picture of a great sacrificial slaughter, classifying the wild ox (unicorn) with the ceremonially clean animals that will fall to the sword.

In Job 39:9-12, Job compares the unicorn or wild ox--a standard symbol of strength in the Old Testament--with domesticated oxen. I believe the unicorn is now extinct throughout the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798890432926

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The Master Unicorn

Chester R. Owenby

Copyright © 2023 by Chester R. Owenby

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Table of Contents

The Morning Hart Before the Brazen Altar

The Horn of David

A Prophecy of the Incarnation of Christ

Joseph’s Three Unicorns: Joshua, the Son of Nun

Joseph’s Three Unicorns: The Sword of Gideon

Joseph’s Three Unicorns: Jephthah, the Son of Manasseh

To Know the Unicorn

The Master Unicorn

To my wife, Clara. She has been a special help in my life especially her assistance in typing and proofreading the books I have written. She has plowed the fields, she has harrowed the fields, and she has brought the corn to the crib. You might say, what does that mean? I speak from the heart: Clara has been with me in the churches I have pastored, the trips to Israel, and has been a great help in writing the two books I have written.

Preface

What motivated my interest in this study was the interest that especially children seem to have toward them. Some would say that the unicorn was a beautiful horse with a horn in its forehead. In studying the Word of God, I have always looked back to the first mention of it: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1–2). The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. The Scripture led me to Genesis 1:24–25: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good.

We may ask, what happened to the unicorn? The fall with the human race affected the whole creation of God. In Genesis 3:1, it states, Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? This is where the fall is recorded.

This is the reason of the incarnation for Christ to redeem that which our father, Adam, lost. Why do we call the unicorn a wild ox? Because the roots of the fall goes deeper and deeper with its deadly venom into the creation.

In my study of the unicorn, I believe that Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Job plowed this unicorn. You may ask, why Job? Because Job had lost all his oxen, and he talked to his redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, in Job 39:9–12: Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by the crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? We find that the last time the unicorn was mentioned was in Isaiah 34:7: And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. This was 713 BC.

In the unicorn, we see that his strength was great, and his horn was his defense. The unicorn describes many characters, and our Lord is likened to the master unicorn that supplies.

Randy Alcorn says in his book on Heaven, Adam, Noah, and Jesus are the tree heads of the three earths. When Adam was created, God surrounded him with animals. When Noah was delivered from the flood, God surrounded him with animals. When Jesus was born, God surrounded him with animals. When Jesus establishes the renewed earth with renewed men and women, don’t you think He will surround Himself with renewed animals.

I think that God will let His servant Job plow the unicorn in his glorified body on the new earth.

The Morning Hart Before the Brazen Altar

Psalm 22: A Psalm of David

The psalm of the morning hart was written one thousand years before our Lord was crucified. The crucifixion of our Lord is described in this psalm in every detail of the dotting of the i to the crossing of the t.

Christ is described as a beautiful hart, started by the hunters at the dawn of the day. The hatred of Herod, the poverty of life, and the temptation of Satan joined in the pursuit. There was always some dog (Gentile) or bulls of Bashan (Jewish leaders) ready to attack Him.

The morning hart found Calvary a craggy, jagged, and fearful hill. There He was driven by the hunters, yet the morning hart outsmarted them. And in His own time, He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.

He was buried in a grave where man had never laid. And on the third day, He arose over death, hell, and the grave. They had not considered that He was the morning hart.

Now He was with many in the garden, showing evidence of His resurrection, and next He was walking the Emmaus road with two of His disciples. Then He was seen at Galilee of His disciples.

And when they seen Him, they worshipped Him, but some doubted.

And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, All power is given unto me in Heaven and in earth. (Matthew 28:17–18)

This is the psalm of the cross. It begins with, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? and ends with recording to the original, It is finished.

Three personalities of the Lord Jesus in Psalm 22 are the following:

The psalm of the morning hart

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. (Psalm 41:1)

The psalm of the good shepherd

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. (John 10:11)

Psalm of the Lamb of God

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

In Psalm 22 the scene is at the foot of the cross.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken