God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters (4 of 10) - Satan's Original Hunters

Hello, friends. 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're going to continue our ten-part book series on my second book, *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters: The Unspoken Biblical Prophecy That Is Terrorizing the World*. We'll be discussing Satan's original hunters. Before we commence, I'd like to apologize to those of you who've been keeping up with the videos — the last two or three weeks I've been dealing with a cough and wasn't able to get the videos out. But from this day forward, God willing, I will be getting these out on a weekly basis to finish the book series.

In this episode we're going to discover Satan's original hunters, which is going to give us great insight into Satan's end-of-the-age hunters — just as we discovered that God's original fishermen give us great insight into God's end-of-the-age fishermen. When I speak about this, I'm speaking about Jeremiah's prophecy as he would have understood it.

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To summarize the previous three episodes: we started with the everlasting covenants — God's plan of salvation for Jew and Gentile. We began with the Abrahamic covenant, which promised a seed — a pure, royal lineage — which is Jesus, Yeshua. That seed would exercise dominion over the promised land. So those two promises are the promised seed, which went through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and on to Messiah, and the promised land. We then went through the Davidic covenant, which concerns the same seed. Matthew 1 identifies Jesus as the Son of Abraham and the Son of David — the same seed — who was going to reign on David's everlasting throne over the promised land of the Abrahamic covenant. Both covenants point to Yeshua, Jesus.

We also discovered the new covenant. We are living under the blood of the new covenant — when you accept Jesus as your Messiah and Savior, you are covered with the blood of the Lamb. However, we are not yet living *in* the new covenant. That will not be fulfilled until the Jewish people, as a corporate nation, bless Him who comes in the name of the Lord, which will occur toward the end of the age during the tribulation. That is Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36, and Isaiah 59 and 60. We are saved under the blood of the new covenant, but we will be living *in* the new covenant during the millennial kingdom for a thousand years. As Jeremiah 31 makes clear, it is made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

These covenants build upon and extend from one another. They are unilateral, unconditional, irrevocable, and everlasting. We covered that in episode one to lay the foundation for this book series.

In episode two we examined the prophecy itself in Jeremiah 16:14–16. God declares that He will bring the Jewish people back home because of His everlasting covenants and His promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. He then tells us how He will do it: first by fishermen, who fish them back, and afterward by hunters, who provoke or hunt them back. There is a timetable for this that we will discover later in the series.

In episode three we discovered God's original fishermen. The original fishermen give us great insight into who the end-of-the-age fishermen are — those who will fish God's people back into the land. We identified those as the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, and that is what we are witnessing today.

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Now in this episode we discover Satan's original hunters, which will give us great insight into the end-of-the-age hunters that Satan provokes against God's people.

This is built on a foundational principle: God declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet fulfilled. As Ecclesiastes reminds us, what has been is what will be; what has been done will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Once we understand how God declares the end from the beginning, we can see that the pattern repeats.

It is also crucial to understand that when we read the biblical prophets, geography matters deeply to God. Jacob's name was changed to Israel — so Israel is an individual, but it is also a region, the promised land. The God of Israel is a God who cares very much about geography, and we must have our regions correct when dealing with biblical prophecy for the end of the age.

In this episode we are going to examine the individuals who came directly against the covenant people — against Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Jesus. We will discover that every time God was about to make a covenant, Satan raised up a direct, literal hunter to come against that person and prohibit the covenant from being established. If you think from Satan's perspective, this is everything — because God made promises to the descendants of Abraham and also to Gentiles who are grafted in. What better way for Satan to come against God than to try to prevent these covenants from ever being made? He even tried to kill Jesus as a newborn through the massacre of the innocents. But it all starts with Abraham, because the Abrahamic covenant is the foundation of God's plan of salvation. As Galatians tells us, if you are in Christ, you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

Look at Israel today. What is the conflict over? It is about the covenants. It is Israel against Islam. It is about geography, the promised land, Jerusalem — the battle for Zion. When you read the biblical prophets, that is what it is about. Jesus is returning to fulfill the Torah and the prophets (Matthew 5:17–20). He has not yet fulfilled everything — much remains for His second coming — and these everlasting covenants are the cornerstone of it all.

When we look at these original hunters, yes, we are examining individuals who came against the original fishermen. But ultimately, when we look at the bigger picture prophetically, we are talking about regions. We find this in Genesis 10 and 11, the Table of Nations. This is so important, because when you read the biblical prophets and encounter names like Magog, Gomer, Togarmah, or Javan, he is speaking about regions. We must understand the Table of Nations to have our geography correct. The prophets did not know Iraq, Iran, or Lebanon as we know them. They knew Philistia, Elam, Persia, and Babylon. That is what they would have understood, so we must enter their mindset to rightly interpret the prophecies.

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Just as the ultimate fisherman is Yeshua, Jesus, the ultimate hunter is Satan. Several scriptures establish this. John 8:44 says of Satan: "He was a murderer — a hunter — from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him." Isaiah 14:12 declares: "How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations." And Ezekiel 28:16 states: "By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within" — the nature of a hunter — "and you sinned."

Satan's nature is that of a murderer and liar from the beginning. He knows that once God fulfills these everlasting covenants, he is doomed. These covenants are essentially his sentencing to the everlasting pit. God is a promise-keeper, and these covenants are everlasting — they rest solely on God's sovereign righteousness. They will ultimately destroy the Antichrist at the end of the age, and after the thousand years, as Revelation 20 tells us, Satan will be cast into the pit of hell forever and ever.

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Now, before we get into the original hunters, I want to address what I find very fascinating: Noah's prophetic curse on the land of Canaan. Most people do not understand this, but in giving the land of Canaan to His people, God was also fulfilling Noah's prophetic curse from Genesis 9.

We know the story of Noah — after the flood, he was fruitful, multiplying, planting a vineyard. He got drunk, and we pick up the scene with his sons in Genesis 9:22–27:

*"And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. So Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then Noah said: 'Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.' And he said: 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.'"*