God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters - Introduction

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 are going to start a new series on my second book — a ten-part video series titled *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters: The Unspoken Biblical Prophecy That Is Terrorizing the World*. I have been wanting to do this series for some time, and I believe this is the right time. I hope you will join us as we embark on this journey through a prophecy that I believe is largely unspoken in the prophecy world. We are going to bring it to light and get this information out, because it is a very important prophecy.

As those who follow our ministry know, we deal with the biblical prophecies for the end of the age. I believe we are living at the end of the age — this is not to set dates, but simply to follow the prophecies. This prophecy is no different. We can see its escalation and intensification when we look at the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and also the shores of America. In my personal opinion, this prophecy has continued to escalate.

Before we get into the substance of the book, I want to give an introductory summary. We have to remember that the Holy Bible is an Israel-centric book. Think of it like a bullseye: Israel is the center, surrounded by the immediate neighboring nations, and then the outer nations — America, Britain, Europe, and others. God's prophetic timeline centers on Israel and the Jewish people first, then the surrounding nations, and then the broader nations. We have discussed this in other videos, but to recap the key markers for the end of the age: Israel was born again as a nation in 1948, the Jewish people have been returning — the aliyah — since that time, and in 1967 Jerusalem was recaptured as their capital. These are three critical markers, just as the Messiah himself proclaimed to the Jewish people that they would see him no more until they say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."

This prophecy deals directly with the aliyah — the return of the Jewish people to the land. Certain things had to happen before that return could take place, and those prerequisites are woven into the prophecy itself.

We are going to work through two main components of the book: first, the prophecy itself from Jeremiah 16, which covers God's fishermen and Satan's hunters; and second, the everlasting covenants. I believe there are three foundational things every believer needs to understand: the everlasting covenants — the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant, which together comprise God's plan of salvation — God's calendar, and the feast days. If we understand those three things, all prophecy, including the Book of Revelation, will make far more sense.

The prophecy is found in Jeremiah 16:14–17. It reads: *"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he has driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers. Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity hidden from my eyes."*

This is, in my opinion, an end-of-the-age prophecy, and I will go through it in greater detail in the second video of this series. When Jeremiah says that God will no longer be called the one who brought Israel out of Egypt, but the one who brought them out of all the lands, he is telling us there will be a greater exodus from the nations of the world than the one from Egypt. In Exodus 12:37, we are told that 600,000 men on foot left Egypt — not counting women and children. Since 1948, approximately four million Jewish people have returned from the nations to Israel. That is already a greater exodus than the one from Egypt, exactly as the prophecy states. This prophecy has been escalating and intensifying since 1948.

Jeremiah also tells us that God will give them the land of the fathers — which ties directly back to the everlasting covenants. Jeremiah wrote this prophecy on the basis of the Abrahamic covenant and the promise of the land. He is declaring: there will be an exodus from the nations so that the Jewish people can inherit the land. We are seeing that today in the modern state of Israel.

When we look at the Jewish population outside Israel, there are approximately six to seven million Jewish people living in America and over one million in Europe. These two continents hold the majority of the Jewish diaspora outside of Israel, and the book addresses both because that is where most of this prophecy's activity is occurring.

Now, verse 16 tells us how God is going to accomplish this return. He says he will send fishermen first to fish the Jewish people back. I want to be clear: all who believe in Yeshua — Jesus — are fishermen in the sense of Matthew 4:19. But in this specific prophetic context from Jeremiah, the fishermen are the Jewish people themselves, fishing their own people back to the land. Since 1948, this has been carried out through organizations like the Jewish Agency, the World Zionist Organization, and the aliyah return centers. We can all participate in supporting that return, even as Gentiles, but the primary fulfillment is the Jewish people calling their own home.

After the fishermen, there will be a period of time, and then God says he will send hunters. The hunters provoke the Jewish people back to the promised land. When we look at Europe and at what is beginning to happen in America, and even in Africa, we are seeing the Jewish people being provoked back to the land — just as this prophecy states. We saw a notable escalation in 2014 and 2015, which we will examine in a later video.

As I said, this prophecy is rarely discussed in the prophecy community. We talk about Daniel, Revelation, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and other passages in Jeremiah — but the fishermen and hunters prophecy is largely overlooked. I believe we need to understand it, because it directly explains much of what we are seeing in the world today.

Before moving forward, I also want to address a critical point from Romans 11:28–29. Paul tells us that even though the nation of Israel, as a corporate whole, is currently opposed to the gospel, they are still the elect. There is a remnant of Jewish believers today — I have many messianic Jewish friends who love the Lord. But as a nation, Israel will not come to full salvation until the end of the age, when they say "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord," which takes place through the time of Jacob's trouble — the seven-year tribulation period. Paul is clear: they are enemies of the gospel for our sake, yet they remain the elect because of the everlasting covenants, and these gifts and callings are irrevocable. They are unconditional and unilateral — only God himself accomplishes this. It did not depend on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or even the Jewish people today. They are the elect because of the covenants God made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. We will go deeper into the everlasting covenants in the next video.

The Jewish people are the fishermen of their own people, bringing them back into the land. And eventually, as a nation, they will say "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." He will be their God and they will be his people, as Ezekiel 36 and Jeremiah 31 declare.

The fishermen and hunters prophecy is a right-now prophecy — just like the prophecies in Daniel and others we have covered on this ministry. It is coming to fruition, escalating, and intensifying. As I show you the evidence in these videos, this prophecy will help explain what is happening in the world today.