Biblical Prophecies to Watch from 2020-2030

Hello, friends. I'm Chadwick Harvey, and this is *Faithful* — a program for the testimony of the biblical prophets and how they perfectly correlate with the current events of today. Thank you for joining us.

In this episode we are going to discover the prophecies to watch for in the 2020 to 2030 decade. Before we begin, it is important to understand what the ultimate purpose is of watching the prophecies — of understanding what the biblical prophets are saying at a particular time.

The ultimate purpose is for the Lord to come back and establish his kingdom — the Jewish kingdom — during the Millennium, fulfilling the biblical prophets and fulfilling the Torah. Two of the main reasons for watching are the fulfillment of the everlasting covenant, which encompasses the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and the New Covenant.

If you are not familiar with those: the Abrahamic Covenant is a unilateral, unconditional, and irrevocable promise made to Abraham and his descendants. It promised a pure royal lineage — a seed — and also the promised land. Those are the two major components. The Davidic Covenant builds and extends upon the Abrahamic Covenant. It is also a unilateral, unconditional, and irrevocable promise, this time made to David and his descendants. It did not depend on David alone, just as the Abrahamic Covenant did not depend on Abraham alone — it depends on God's sovereign righteousness. The Davidic Covenant declares that the seed of the Abrahamic Covenant will become the King of the promised land over the children of Israel.

The New Covenant, found in Jeremiah 31 and made to the house of Israel and Judah, builds and extends upon the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants. It declares that the Messiah will be the Messiah-King over the promised land, over the children of Israel, during the Millennium. That is one of the main reasons the biblical prophets all look forward to the everlasting covenant being fulfilled in Yeshua — Jesus the Messiah.

How do we know that? We go to the Gospels and see that he is the promised seed of the Abrahamic Covenant, of the throne of David. This is written in the Gospel of Luke, chapters one through three, and also in Matthew chapter one, where you can see the lineage of the Messiah going back to Abraham and also to Adam. It is important to understand that the everlasting covenants are prophecies — prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled. The children of Israel have not fully controlled the promised land, and Messiah Yeshua has not yet come back for a second coming to fulfill those everlasting covenants.

He is also coming to fulfill the feast days of the Lord. These are very important and very prophetic. They give us an understanding of what occurred at his first coming and what will occur at his second coming — they are prophecies as well. Those are two of the primary reasons why we keep up with the biblical prophets: the ultimate fulfillment of the everlasting covenants and of the feast days, which we will continue to celebrate throughout the Millennium.

If you are not familiar with the Lord's seven feast days in Leviticus 23: the first four were in the spring and summer — Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and Shavuot, or Pentecost. He was crucified on Passover, buried on Unleavened Bread, rose on Firstfruits, and poured out his Holy Spirit on the Feast of Shavuot. He fulfilled those first four feast days to the exact date, hour, and detail of the ceremony.

As we know, he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not change; there is no shadow of turning with the Messiah. So if he fulfilled the first four spring and summer feasts, then he will fulfill the fall feasts — Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles — at his second coming. The Feast of Trumpets carries many associated idioms, but that is when the Lord will return at his second coming. Then, ten days later, following ten days of wrath, he will redeem the nation of Israel on the Feast of Yom Kippur. Five days after that is the Feast of Tabernacles, at which he will establish his Millennial Kingdom.

The ultimate purpose of the biblical prophets, then, is the everlasting covenants and the feast days. Those are the two major factors, and that is where the biblical prophets point us — to the ultimate restoration: Yeshua coming back for a second coming, setting up the Millennial Kingdom, restoring the Jewish Kingdom, and fulfilling both the feast days and the everlasting covenants.

Now let us look at some of the prophecies I believe we could see accelerating — increasing in velocity — as we go into this next decade. I am not setting any dates, but as you will see, we are already witnessing tremendous movement with some of these prophecies.

The first I would like to address is the Lord's creation plan, which is itself prophetic. The seven-day creation plan, which we are all familiar with: the Lord created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. He established the pattern of working six and resting on the seventh. In Leviticus 25, he told the children of Israel to work six years and rest on the seventh year, so we see this same pattern applied to years. Psalm 19 and 2 Peter 3:8 tell us that a day is a thousand years, and a thousand years is a day with the Lord. Isaiah 46 says that the Lord declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet fulfilled. So we must understand the beginning — the prophetic meaning of the creation days — in order to understand the end.

Looking at the seven-day creation plan as seven thousand years of history: it was four thousand years from Adam to Yeshua — four completed days. From Yeshua to now is almost two completed days, or two thousand completed years. If we believe he was crucified and resurrected in AD 30 or AD 33, then we can see that we are nearly at the completion of the sixth day — the six thousandth year. Again, we are not trying to set dates. We must watch the other prophecies we are about to discuss, and through them we will understand where we fit on the seven-day creation plan prophetically.

We have done detailed videos on most of these prophecies, which you can find on my website and my YouTube channel, but we will survey them here and consider how they fit today's world and what we might expect in the next decade.

The one that stands out most to me right now is the Book of Daniel. I believe the Book of Daniel is being unsealed as we speak. I believe it began to be unsealed around the turn of the millennium — around the year 2000 — and over the past twenty years, especially the last ten and the last five, we have seen tremendous movement in the fulfillment of what Daniel describes.

Daniel's four kingdoms are the most basic way to understand that we live at the time of the end. There are a few other markers to watch as well: the establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948, and the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967. Those are tremendous markers on the Lord's timetable. The return of the Jewish people to the promised land is another marker, because the Lord will not return until they say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord," and they must be in Jerusalem to say it.

The Messiah himself points us to Daniel — to kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation, and to the abomination of desolation in Daniel. He directs us back to the Book of Daniel for insight, wisdom, and knowledge of the end of the age. He commands all of us to watch. He specifically said to watch so that he does not come upon us as a thief in the night. He comes as a thief in the night only to those who are spiritually dead — the dead church, the lukewarm church — but to the faithful church, the ones who are watching, he will not come as a thief in the night. You can read that in 1 Thessalonians 5 and in Revelation chapters 1 through 3 concerning those churches.

Daniel's four kingdoms are found in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7, and I believe they mirror each other. I do not believe those kingdoms have been fulfilled. Daniel 12:4 says the book is sealed until the time of the end, and we are now starting to see the end of the age — we are starting to see these kingdoms beginning to rise and fall just as the prophets described. Daniel 2 is for the end of the age. Daniel 2:28 states that Nebuchadnezzar's dream was for the end of the age, for the latter times, and that these things would come true. God wanted Nebuchadnezzar to understand that, along with Daniel and his three friends.

We must understand that Daniel 2, Daniel 7, and Daniel 8 are all prophetically speaking of these beasts — these kingdoms — for the end of the age. In Daniel 2, King Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of a statue representing four kingdoms, followed by a fifth kingdom that would be Messiah's. As Daniel 2:44–45 states, in the days of those kings the Messiah would come and crush them all. He did not come back in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, or Alexander the Great — he will come back once those kingdoms reach their fulfillment at the end of the age.

Working through the progression: Daniel identifies Babylon as the first kingdom, followed by Medo-Persia, Yavan (Greece), and then a coming conglomerate. Daniel 7 presents the same four kingdoms. To summarize their modern equivalents: Iraq represents Babylon, Iran represents Persia, Turkey represents Yavan or Greece, and then there will be a conglomerate of these powers.

How do we know this? We go to Revelation 13:1–2, where John says he saw a beast that was like a bear, a leopard, and a lion — taking us back to Daniel 7's first three kingdoms. Those three kingdoms will form a conglomerate, their combined land area corresponding to the ancient Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian empires. I have done a detailed study on these available on my YouTube page and my website. The key point is that four kingdoms will rise to power, and in their modern names we can locate them in the regions of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and then a greater conglomerate of those lands.