God's Fisherman - Satan's Hunters - Book Series Part 8 - "Chapter 7 Continued"

The day is coming and drawing so near. The prophet's words are being fulfilled. The times and seasons are at hand for the glorious arrival of the Son of Man. Lightning flashes from the East to the West; the Earth will endure the Lord's test. Be saved by his name while he can be found; seek his face before the trumpet sounds. The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. Before that day, keep your lamp. The day of the Lord is full of dread — in that day, who can stand? O Lord, Shalom.

My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance, and I want to thank everyone for joining us as we continue part two of the series on the rise of anti-Semitism across the world. The biblical explanation for that rise is found in the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters, written by the Prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 16. Thank you for joining us this morning — especially those on the East and West Coasts. I hope everyone had a restful Shabbat yesterday. I certainly needed the rest after the long night we had with part one, because this is a prophecy that is truly shaking the world, and we can see that very clearly as we look at current events.

If you were not with us for part one, I will provide a summary. We are working through a ten-chapter book called *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters*, which examines the prophecy of Jeremiah. In my opinion, this is the unspoken biblical prophecy that almost no one is discussing, yet it explains the rise of anti-Semitism everywhere the Jewish people reside — in the Middle East, in Europe, in America, and beyond. We are seeing this firsthand.

We began part one by discussing God's Everlasting Covenants, which are foundational to understanding what the war at the end of the age is truly about. That war centers on the Abrahamic Covenant — specifically, the deed to the land. What we are witnessing today with Hamas and Israel is a conflict over the deed to that land. There is a reason the accusation of "occupiers" is leveled against Israel: it reflects the ancient controversy over the Abrahamic Covenant and the Promised Land. This war has been fought for millennia. The rise of anti-Semitism is ultimately a consequence of the Everlasting Covenants, and Jeremiah's prophecy confirms and builds upon exactly that.

In the first chapter of the book and video series, we covered the three Everlasting Covenants: the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and the New Covenant. All three work together. In summary: the Abrahamic Covenant is God's plan of salvation for both Jew and Gentile. It began with two great promises — a Promised Seed, who is Yeshua, and a Promised Land, the land of Israel. The Davidic Covenant built upon that by promising King David that one of his descendants would reign on his literal throne in the Millennial Kingdom for a thousand years. We understand that to be Yeshua, seated on David's everlasting throne over the Promised Land and over the people. The New Covenant then brings it to fulfillment.

Romans 11, Ephesians 2, and Galatians 3 all confirm that both Jew and Gentile believers are grafted into these covenants and into Israel's promises. As Paul writes in Galatians 3:26–29, if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise. We are all part of the covenants. Yeshua has not yet fulfilled the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants — that did not happen at his first coming — but when he returns and the Jewish people accept him as their Savior, he will be their King and they will be his people. This is confirmed by Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36, Isaiah 59, and throughout Paul's writings. Understanding the Everlasting Covenants is essential, because they are the very reason Jeremiah wrote the prophecy.

That prophecy is found in Jeremiah 16:14–18. Jeremiah declares that God will bring the Jewish people back to the Promised Land before the end of the age — before the rise of the Antichrist. He says God will first bring them back by the fishermen, and then hunters will drive the remaining ones back from every hill, every mountain, and from the holes and crevices of the rocks. Let me be clear: the Prophet Jeremiah was not anti-Semitic, and neither am I. This is simply a prophecy about what God will do at the end of the age to bring his people back into the land. I believe we are seeing both the fishermen and the hunters begin to be fulfilled right now.

We covered this prophecy in chapter two and established that it was not fulfilled after the Babylonian captivity — though many readers of Jeremiah 16 might assume it was written for that generation. This is an end-of-the-age prophecy. Chapter three identifies who God's original fishermen are: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and ultimately Yeshua, through whom the covenants were made. When Jeremiah speaks of the fishermen, he is not referring to Matthew 4:19, where the Messiah says we are all fishers of men — that is a different concept entirely. In Jeremiah's prophecy, the fishermen are the Israelis themselves, the Jewish people fishing their own people back into the land.

Chapter four covers how, every time God was about to establish a covenant with one of these covenant people, a hunter came against them individually. Nimrod came against Abraham. Ishmael came against Isaac. Esau came against Jacob. Goliath came against David in that unique, one-on-one battle. And the Herodian dynasty — Herod the Great and Herod Antipas, who were from the lineage of Esau, as most people do not realize — came against Yeshua. The pattern is consistent throughout: God's fishermen — Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Yeshua — were always opposed by Satan's hunters: Nimrod, Ishmael, Esau, Goliath, and the Herodians.

Chapter five introduces what we call the Mystery of Aliyah, and at this point the book shifts from ancient history to modern-day events. In 1492, the Spanish Inquisition drove the Jewish people out of Spain. What followed was a blood moon tetrad in 1493 and 1494 — four blood moons falling on Passover and Tabernacles in both consecutive years — tied directly to that persecution and migration. Moving forward to 1948, the State of Israel was established, and again a blood moon tetrad followed in 1949 and 1950: four blood moons, two consecutive years, six months apart, falling on Passover and Tabernacles, just as before. The Jewish people returned to the Promised Land for the first time in 1,900 years. That had to happen for end-of-the-age prophecy to unfold as written.

The pattern continued. In 1967 and 1968, blood moons again appeared on Passover and Tabernacles — and Israel recaptured Jerusalem for the first time in 1,900 years. Even though they were already in the land, they had not controlled Jerusalem. Anyone who has visited knows that you physically ascend to Jerusalem; you go up from Tel Aviv or from the southern parts of the country. Then in 2014 and 2015, another blood moon tetrad appeared, again on Tabernacles, two consecutive years, six months apart — and we find a wave of Aliyah coming from Europe.

That is exactly where we left off. In the previous session, we discussed what I call the final explosion of the Middle East. In 2003, Saddam Hussein's government fell, and from that point the Middle East descended into anarchy — civil unrest, terrorism, war, and millions of refugees. Then came the Arab Spring of 2011 and 2012, sweeping through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, and other nations, each falling into civil war. Millions of refugees from Iraq poured into Syria, and then Syria's own civil war drove millions more into Turkey and eventually through Turkey into Europe. Beginning around 2014 and 2015, Europe began to change irrevocably as a result of this massive Islamic migration driven by the explosions across the Middle East — and that is precisely where we will pick up today.