LandWatch is the cryptzoo part of my blog, where I'll write about things like Bigfoot and well-meaning politicians and other strange, possibly nonexistent creatures that are rumored to exist or once existed on land (and soon-to-come SeaWatch, my intelligent readers, will, yes, be about things like Nessie and creatures such as her).
They called me crazy. Well, my dad did. But I found them. In the Bible. Just like I said.
Unicorns. Beautiful rhinos. Whatever you call 'em, Job talks about them. Don't believe me?
In the King James Bible, in Job 39:9-12:
"Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy 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?"
God talks about unicorns like they were any other animal, trying to show Job the awesomeness that He had wrought by creating all of these animals with their various talents and abilities. The unicorn shows up in a few other passages as well.
In Numbers 23:22:
"God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn."
In Deuteronomy 33:17:
"His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
In Psalm 22:21:
"Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns."
In Psalm 29:6:
"He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."
In Psalm 92:10:
"But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."
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."
Uh-huh. Unicorns. In the Bible. Maybe this isn't hard-hitting journalism or ways to survive a demon attack (hint: Super-Soaker filled with Holy Water), but it can't be death and government conspiracies all the time, can it? Sometimes I need to blog something to lighten the mood--and what's lighter than unicorns? I'm not asking for a literal answer. Just enjoy the unicorn-awesomeness.
And Dad called me crazy.

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