God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters (3 of 10) - God's Original Fishermen

Hello, friends. I'm Chad with 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're going to continue our book series. This is the third part of the ten-part series based on my second book, *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters: The Unspoken Biblical Prophecy That Is Terrorizing the World*. We're going to be discussing the original fishermen in Jeremiah's prophecy, and we're also going to discover the ultimate fisherman, who is Jesus — Yeshua. Those are the two points we'll cover in this video.

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Before we begin, let me summarize the first two videos, since they lay the foundation for what we're discussing here.

In the first video, we looked at Genesis 3:15, where the Lord declared He would put enmity between two seeds — the woman's seed, which is ultimately Israel's seed, and Satan's seed. We can also understand these as the fisherman's seed and the hunter's seed, which is precisely what we're dealing with in Jeremiah's prophecy. There would be a seed that would crush the serpent's head at the end of the age, and we know that is Jesus — Yeshua.

We then moved to the Abrahamic covenant and examined the three everlasting covenants: the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. The Abrahamic covenant contains a promised seed — the same seed as Genesis 3:15 — and it also includes the promised land, which is critical to understanding Jeremiah's prophecy. From there we moved to the Davidic covenant, in which God promised David a seed as well — the same seed as Abraham's, and the same seed as Genesis 3:15. This seed would be king over David's everlasting throne, over the promised land, and the Gentiles are included in that. Then we addressed the New Covenant, which is also fulfilled in Jesus. All three covenants will be fully established at His second coming and throughout His millennial kingdom.

In episode two, we went through the prophecy itself in Jeremiah 16:14–16. To paraphrase: the Lord declared that at the end of the age there would be a greater exodus — a return to the promised land — from the north and from all the lands to which He had driven His people, because of His everlasting promises in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants. He also told us how He would accomplish this. First, He would send fishermen to fish the Jewish people back to the promised land. Then, afterward — and this is important — He would send hunters to provoke them back, or hunt them back, to the promised land as well.

We went through that prophecy in detail and recognized that it was not fulfilled in the previous exiles — not in the Babylonian exile, nor in the Roman exile. But since 1948, this prophecy has begun to be fulfilled, and it has continued to escalate and intensify. We'll get into that further with statistics in future videos.

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That is the foundation. Now let's talk about the original fishermen, because understanding them gives us tremendous insight into who the end-of-the-age fishermen of Jeremiah's prophecy are.

I want to make one important clarification. In Matthew 4:19, Jesus said that we are all fishers of men — so in that sense, every believer is a fisherman. But that is not what I'm addressing here. I'm speaking specifically about Jeremiah's prophecy and how he would have understood it: who are the fishermen of the covenants? That is the focus of this discussion. With that said, yes, if you believe in Jesus — Yeshua — you are a fisher of men in the broad sense. But when it comes to the fishermen and hunters of Jeremiah's prophecy, we're speaking of those connected to the covenants.

Isaiah 46:9–10 tells us that God declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet fulfilled. That means we need to understand the Torah and the prophets, because those things have not been entirely fulfilled yet. We may have seen partial fulfillments, but the ultimate fulfillment will come at the end of the age. And Ecclesiastes reinforces this: "What has been is what will be; what has been done will be done — there is nothing new under the sun." God has given us great understanding by taking us back to the Torah, where the original revelation is found. That revelation will be ultimately fulfilled by Jesus, just as Matthew 5:17–19 states. So to understand the end-of-the-age fishermen, we must first understand the original fishermen.

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Who are the original fishermen? They are the covenant people — Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David — those with whom God established His covenants, which we are all grafted into, both Jew and Gentile. They are the original fishermen. Next week, when we discuss Satan's original hunters, you'll see how clearly this all correlates: the original fisherman is Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, then their descendants — the Jewish people — and then the Gentiles, who are grafted in.

We'll see this more clearly when we discuss the ultimate fisherman shortly, but we must first establish this foundation: the covenant people are the original fishermen. And when we look forward to the end of the age, they will be the end-of-the-age fishermen as well. Satan, as we'll also discuss, has aligned a specific hunter against Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and even Yeshua Himself.

The covenant people, as the original fishermen, are going to fish their own people back to the promised land. This began in 1948, and approximately four million Jewish people have made aliyah since then — which confirms that Jeremiah's prophecy is in the early stages of its fulfillment. We'll get into much more detail in a later video.

To be clear: the original fishermen are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, and now their descendants — the Jewish people — who will fish their own people home. They are the pure royal lineage. And as for Gentile believers like myself, we are grafted into these covenants. Ephesians 2 speaks of the commonwealth of Israel. Romans 11 speaks of the grafting in. And Galatians 3:26–29 tells us that if you are in Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise of the Abrahamic covenant.

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There are three foundational things I have always told people are essential for understanding both theology and prophecy. The first is God's calendar — we must understand the biblical calendar, which today is the Hebrew and Jewish calendar, rooted in Genesis 1:14, the sun and moon calendar. The second is His feast days — His divine appointments. We must understand those as well. And the third is the everlasting covenants. If we understand those three things, everything in Scripture opens up beautifully as we move forward in prophecy and theology.

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Now let me share a couple of scriptures that confirm the original fishermen. Deuteronomy 7:6 says: *"For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth."* And Romans 11:28–29 says: *"Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."*

These two scriptures are paramount. In Deuteronomy 7:6, the Torah makes it clear that God declared Israel to be His holy people, chosen above all peoples. He chose Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David — and through them, He brought His plan of salvation to the world. We are all grafted into that. They were chosen to be a light, which we're about to get into.

What Paul says in Romans 11:28–29 is equally important. As a corporate nation — not speaking of individuals, but as a nation — Israel is currently, in Paul's framing, an enemy of the gospel, because they have not yet received Yeshua as their Savior. But they will, as a nation, at the end of the age. Yet notice what Paul says immediately: *"concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers."* This tells us that they are still the fishermen of the covenants in Jeremiah's prophecy — because of the fathers: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. And then: *"for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."* Just as we discussed in the first video, these covenants are irrevocable. They are unilateral and unconditional — they do not depend on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, or their descendants. They depend on God's sovereign righteousness.

As we know, the nation itself will be saved at the end of the age. That is when they will say, *"Baruch haba b'shem Adonai"* — "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord" — and all Israel will be saved, as Romans 11 declares. Of course, individual Jewish people can come to salvation at any time, and we're seeing that happen every day. But as a corporate nation, the fullness of that salvation is coming — hallelujah — at the end of the age.

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So to affirm once more: the original fishermen are the covenant people. They will be the end-of-the-age fishermen who fish their own people back to the promised land. It makes total sense that they would fish their own people home. We're going to confirm this with statistics in a future video.

Now let's continue forward into what the biblical prophets declared about the children of Israel — what was spoken over them, and what it means for them to be the light of the world.