Now the first animal I want to look at is the unicorn. Notice what it says in
Psalm 92 verse 10, but my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn, I shall
be anointed with fresh oil. Look, there's no indication in this verse that this is
a fake creature. The Bible clearly says the horn of an unicorn, and look just a
few verses later it talks about the importance of dwelling in church, how
you'll bring forth fruit in old age, and Baptists would preach that and say Amen.
Well we can't shy away from a couple verses earlier. It is also the Word of
God, right? The Bible says the horn of an unicorn. Now here's the definition I
found online of a unicorn. It says the unicorn is a legendary creature that has
been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large pointed
spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. So of course a lot of kids they
love unicorns, right? They'll have the stuffed animal or the book bag or
something like that, and you know, you know young kids especially love this
creature and everything like that. But let me just say this, that whenever we're
trying to figure out what something is, our first source of knowledge is what?
The Word of God, right? And here's what I would say, that when you look up various
animals in the Bible, they represent different things. For example, if you
think about the ant, what does an ant represent? Hard work, right? Isn't that
what the Bible says? Go to the ant thou sluggard, right? When we see an ant, it
shows us and it reminds us we need to work hard. You say, why? Because ants have
drank like 20 cups of coffee every day. They're always just like moving around.
It's like, man, just calm down a little bit. But they worked very hard. So certain
animals represent different things, and the unicorn represents something very
specific, okay? So we're trying to figure out what is this unicorn, what does the
Bible say? Numbers 23 verse 22, God brought them out of Egypt, he hath as it
were the strength of an unicorn. Now let me ask you a question. When kids have
this little stuffed animal of this unicorn, when you see that animal, do you
think, what a strong animal that is? That's not what I think. I mean, I don't
really, I mean that animal would get torn apart in the jungle pretty quickly, right?
You would not say that is a strong animal. So here's what I'm going to tell
you. The unicorn that's mentioned in the Bible is not the picture that you're
thinking. You say, well Brother Stuckey, what is this animal? A unicorn is a
one-horned rhinoceros, and I'm going to prove that to you. Number one, we look at
the Bible as our source of knowledge. We're looking at a really strong animal.
Does a rhino fit with a really strong animal? Absolutely. I look at it as the
baddest, toughest animal, pound for pound, that there is. Also, in today's world,
there are basically five species of rhinos left, and for those species are
two horns. One species is one horn. This is known as the Indian
Rhino, okay? It's native to the country of India. For the chubbiest Rhino is also
called a unicorn and is built like a knight in shinning armor. I'm sure you've
seen this slogan on many t-shirts and other promotional items to help save the
rhino, save the chubby unicorn. In fact, the nickname of the greater one-horned
or Indian Rhino is the Unicorn Rhino. It's just obvious that a unicorn is a
rhino. The one horn rhino that exists in India, the scientific name has unicorn in
the name. The dictionary says a one horn rhino is a unicorn, right? This is one,
and you can disagree with me all you want, this one's just obvious. One other
piece of information, nowadays scientists actually say that, you know what, we've
discovered the unicorn is not a fake animal, it's actually a real animal.
According to a study published last month in the American Journal of Applied
Science, a species called Elasmotherium sabiricum, the Siberian unicorn, went
extinct much later than previously thought. Researchers from Tomsk State
University believe they found fossil evidence of a Siberian unicorn prancing
around just 29,000 years ago. The E. sabiricum was the size of a mammoth
covered in hair and is thought to have had a large horn protruding from its
forehead, hence the title Siberian unicorn. They say that, you know what, the
unicorn is actually real but it's not this horse or this pony with this ice
cream cone sticking out of its head. It's actually a rhinoceros that has become
extinct, right? And I agree with them.