God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters (10 of 10) - The Time of Jacob's Trouble

I'm Chadwick Harvey, and this is Faithful Performance, where we explore 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 conclude our video series on my book, *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters: The Unspoken Biblical Prophecy That Is Terrorizing the World*. We conclude with discovering the time of Jacob's trouble.

Most people look at this as the seven-year tribulation period, or as I call it, the last Shemita year, which goes into Daniel's 70th week — with the understanding that the "week" is a seven-year period. It falls on the Shemitah cycle: the last Shemitah of the age before Messiah returns for His second coming.

But we'd first like to go over how this period became known as the time of Jacob's trouble. It goes back to the patriarch Jacob as he worked seven years for Rachel. We all know the story in Genesis — he had to work an extra seven years for the one he truly loved, Rachel. We find this in Genesis 29:28: "Then Jacob did fulfill her week," referring to Rachel, after which Laban gave Rachel to Jacob to marry. That is where the name "the time of Jacob's trouble" comes from. It is a seven-year period, and that is where the seven-year tribulation originates. The Antichrist will come to power, with the last three and a half years being especially severe. There will be judgments throughout — the first three and a half years as described in the book of Revelation, and then the final three and a half years after the Antichrist rises. That is the prophetic understanding drawn from Genesis with the patriarch Jacob.

Now I'd like to summarize the book series before we step into the time of Jacob's trouble, which is where all of the biblical prophecies will come to their fulfillment.

In Episode 1, we discovered God's everlasting covenants. That is where it all begins, going back to Genesis 3:15, when the Lord declared to Satan that He was going to put enmity between the woman's seed — which is Israel — and Satan's seed. We essentially see two lineages: the fisherman seed of the Lord through the woman Israel, into which Gentiles are grafted, and Satan's seed, the hunter lineage. That understanding carries us to the everlasting covenants.

In the Abrahamic Covenant, there were two great promises. The first is the seed that would rule over the Promised Land — literally the Promised Land of Messiah's second coming and His millennial kingdom. Then we have the Davidic Covenant, in which the Lord promised David that a seed from his own loins would sit on his everlasting throne. This was not Solomon — the kingdom was divided after Solomon, so it could not have been him. This refers to David's everlasting throne over the Promised Land of the Abrahamic Covenant. When we go to Matthew 1, we discover that seed — Jesus, Yeshua, Son of Abraham, Son of David — taking us directly back to the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants.

As we all know, Messiah is the new covenant, and we are saved under the blood of the new covenant. However, we are not yet living in the new covenant in its fullness — that will be during the millennial kingdom. We also find the new covenant in Jeremiah 31, where it is made with Israel. Gentiles are grafted into those covenants, as we see in Romans 11, in Ephesians 2:11–13 — where we are described as being in the commonwealth of Israel — and in Galatians 3:26–29, which states that if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise of the Abrahamic Covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant is therefore the foundational covenant through which salvation for both Jews and Gentiles occurs. The Davidic Covenant builds and extends upon that. Messiah, the new covenant, will fulfill both the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants, and we will live in the new covenant during the millennial kingdom.

In Episode 2, we got into the prophecy itself — the fishermen and the hunters, found in Jeremiah 16. The Lord declared that there would come a time when He would release the fishermen and the hunters for the sake of the everlasting covenants. He said it would be a greater exodus than from Egypt. And certainly that has been the case since 1948: the fishermen have fished their people back — over four million people — whereas the original exodus numbered around six hundred thousand. We are seeing this prophecy come to fruition. It did not occur in prior history as a fulfillment; rather, it began in 1948 when the state of Israel was formed, and has continued forward with the release of the hunters. We are seeing this prophecy fulfilled before our eyes, and we will continue to see it unfold through the time of Jacob's trouble.

In Episode 3, we discovered God's original fishermen, who are the covenant people — Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Yeshua with the new covenant. We also discovered Satan's original hunters, who came directly against each original fisherman before that individual's covenant was established. Those hunters were Nimrod, Ishmael, Esau, Goliath with the Philistines, and the Herodian dynasty coming against Messiah. Satan raised up a specific hunter directly against each original fisherman in order to prevent the covenant from being made, because he understands how critical these everlasting covenants are. God has put His name in Israel; He has put His name in Zion; He has put His name in Jerusalem. That is where the covenants are, and He is going to fulfill them.

In Episode 5, we discovered the mystery of Aliyah. Aliyah means to return to the Promised Land. We have seen this mystery unfolding over the last five hundred years through four blood moon tetrads — blood moons occurring on the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles for two consecutive years. These occurred in 1493–1494, coinciding with the Jewish migration from Spain. Then in 1949–1950, at the formation of the state of Israel and the great aliyah to the Promised Land. Then in 1967–1968, when Israel recaptured Jerusalem in the Six-Day War and made aliyah to Jerusalem. And most recently in 2014–2015, the blood moon tetrad appeared again on Passover and Tabernacles for two consecutive years, corresponding to the aliyah from Europe driven by the end-of-age hunters we examined in subsequent videos.

We also discovered that God's end-of-age fishermen would be the same as the original fishermen — the Jewish people, fishing their own people back. Romans 11 makes clear that they are the elect; the calling is irrevocable and unconditional. It makes total sense that they would be the end-of-age fishermen to bring their own people back.

We then got into the end-of-age hunters, who arise from the same regions as the original hunters of Ishmael, Nimrod, Esau, and Goliath. The civil wars, government anarchies, and turmoil that have swept the Middle East from 2003 through the Arab Spring, and then the Islamic migration into Europe beginning in 2014–2015, have driven an aliyah from Europe unlike anything seen in decades.

In Episode 8, we discovered how all of this would affect America, which is home to the second-largest Jewish population in the world — Europe being third. That is why you are seeing the Islamic migration and its turbulent effects in Europe, and you are beginning to see it in America as well, through government infiltration, open borders, and the education system — what amounts to a political jihad. This will ultimately drive an aliyah from America as well.

That led us to last week's video, where we discovered the final hunter — the Antichrist. We discovered his origin in the Middle East: the Iraq, Syria, and Turkey area — that fertile crescent region. We discovered that the primary religion he will use at the end of the age is Islam. We also explored the correlations between the Holy Bible and the Quran on this point. What the Bible identifies as the Antichrist, Islam identifies as their savior — the Mahdi. Both traditions describe a seven-year tribulation period, though they stand in direct contrast to one another. We need to be praying for the Muslim people to come out of deception.

That brings us to this week's episode — the conclusion of the book series — the time of Jacob's trouble. As discussed, most people know this as the seven-year tribulation. I prefer to call it the last Shemita, because it is that block of seven that constitutes Daniel's 70th week. This is why it is important to be on God's calendar — both the civil calendar that begins in the fall, and the biblical calendar that begins in the spring, the Exodus calendar.

The civil calendar traces from Adam — it is the creation calendar, the one that counts time. The Shemitah year runs on a seven-year cycle on this calendar, beginning in the fall. I believe the tribulation will begin on one of these Shemitah cycles. The Shemitah cycle was coming up in the fall of 2022 — that being the seventh year of the previous cycle, with a new Shemitah cycle beginning in the fall of 2022. If the tribulation does not begin at that time, then it will be seven more years — fall of 2029, or fall of 2036, and so on. God is very consistent with this pattern throughout Scripture; we see it even with Nebuchadnezzar and in other events. God operates on a specific time frame with these prophecies. He is a God of order, and He wants us to understand these things. The time of Jacob's trouble will be that block of seven.

We would like now to walk through the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters as it will be completely fulfilled before Messiah returns for His second coming. We will cover the time of Jacob's trouble and where this prophecy will reach its fulfillment, then the last three and a half years, the final aliyah when Messiah returns, and the judgment He will pour out on the end-of-age hunter regions.