Jeremiah 16: The Rise of the Hunters - A Prophet's Warning to the Jewish People in the Latter Days

Shalom, everybody. My name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we discover the prophecy in Jeremiah 16 — the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters. We will be going through the hunters portion of it tonight. When we see the antisemitism all over the world stemming from the Israeli-Gaza war, we can see this prophecy really begin to gain speed in its fulfillment. This is one of those prophecies that is difficult to discuss given what it says, yet it is one we are seeing come to pass very rapidly.

I wrote a book in 2018 called *The Fishermen and the Hunters*, drawn from Jeremiah 16. It originally began as a chapter in my first book, *God's Prophetic Timeline*, but the research expanded it from a 5,000-word chapter into an 80,000-word book. The point tonight, however, is not the book — it is the prophecy itself.

When we wrote the book in 2018, you could already see this coming through the colleges, the education system, the government, and the cultural shifts surrounding the border. Now, seven years later, we are seeing it come to fruition with the antisemitism and the violence being directed at the Jewish people here in the United States. We are not used to seeing that in America — perhaps in other countries or in the Middle East — but now we are seeing two Israelis, both of whom were believers, shot down in cold blood in Washington, D.C. We are also seeing incidents in Colorado and across the country, polarized by the Israeli-Gaza war.

Tonight we will go through a summary of the book's content. If you would like a free copy of the e-book, please send me an email and I will send it to you. We will cover the statistics and history in summary, then bring everything up to date by showing why this prophecy is coming to fruition and what it is tied to — the blood moons, the lunar eclipses, and the solar eclipses we have seen throughout history. It is very important to put all of these things together and recognize where we are on this prophecy, as well as the others.

So many times we see prophecies like Ezekiel 38, Daniel 2, Daniel 7, and Daniel 8 being discussed, but this one in Jeremiah 16 is rarely mentioned alongside them. As time goes on and we see more of it unfolding on the ground, that will change. We will read the entire chapter of Jeremiah 16, then go back through history to see how this prophecy has not yet been fulfilled — that it is reserved for the latter days, for the end of the age, at the events surrounding the second coming. Then we will tie in the blood moons and see how the Jewish people have historically been moved — making aliyah, migrating — every time these heavenly signs appear on the earth.

It is critically important to see how all of this comes together, just as we discussed two nights ago with the Iran-Israel conflict, the blood moons, and the fact that Donald Trump was born on a blood moon and Benjamin Netanyahu was born on a solar eclipse. That is paramount. God is communicating through his heavenly signs — through the blood moon and the darkened sun — exactly what is going on in biblical prophecy. As we discussed in Daniel 10, you are seeing that prophecy come to fulfillment, and it will culminate in Daniel 8.

To read and understand how the Bible speaks about these things, we need the right tools. Too many people are not being educated about the feast days, the biblical calendar, the blood moons, the lunar eclipses, and the covenants — and that is a serious problem. If we understand the calendar and the feast days, we will not be caught off guard like a thief in the night. We will be in alignment with the Most High God. When you understand the calendar and the feast days, and when you understand the blood moons and solar eclipses, you are moving in step with the Lord Almighty. He designed the calendar, the moon, and the sun to tell time and to reveal the seasons we are in — especially when the moon turns blood red and when the sun goes dark like sackcloth, as we discussed two nights ago.

When one understands the calendar and the feast days, and when one sees that three world leaders — Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader — were each born on one of these heavenly signs, it becomes clear what is unfolding in the Middle East right now. These three nations are at war. In real time, we are seeing what the Most High God is showing us. But we must have the understanding of how to read these things through the calendar, the blood moons, and the feast days to rightly perceive it.

We will also get into the blood moons as they tie into Jeremiah 16 — what I call the Mystery of Aliyah. We will read through history, go back to the Arab Spring, and understand how we arrived at this point. The hunters were released in 2014 and 2015 with those blood moons, and now we are seeing the culmination of the prophecy.

But first, let us read what Jeremiah wrote. This is the New King James Version of Jeremiah 16, where the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters is found.

Before we read, let me set the historical context. Most of us are familiar with the prophet Jeremiah. He lived during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar — think roughly 600 BC. Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 BC, and Jeremiah was living through that period. He was sent to the southern kingdom of Judah. The northern kingdom of Israel had already been destroyed by the Assyrian Empire around 722 BC. Nebuchadnezzar then defeated the Assyrians at the Battle of Carchemish and was given authority in Jeremiah 25 to judge all the nations that were out of alignment with the Most High God — you can read that for yourself in Jeremiah 25. If the nations submitted, they would be spared; if they rebelled, he would destroy them. Judah was out of alignment, and Jeremiah — along with Isaiah and many other prophets — was sent to warn them. They said no to the Lord and no to Jeremiah, and so Jeremiah wrote his prophecies about what would happen to Judah, but also about what would happen at the day of the Lord at the end of the age.

It is important to read Jeremiah from both standpoints — historically and prophetically. His writings speak to his own historical moment, but they bleed into the end of the age. This is called pattern prophecy. It is a remarkable way that God moved the prophets to write to us about the end of the age. The prophecy first concerns being sent to Babylon and destroyed, and then it transitions into an end-of-the-age prophecy — because what Jeremiah writes here has not yet been fulfilled. The Jewish people have never been fished back or hunted back since this prophecy was written. Jeremiah's day gives us a date stamp of 587 BC, and from that point forward, this prophecy remains unfulfilled. We will get into the timing after we read what the prophet wrote.

This is Jeremiah 16:

"The word of the Lord also came to me, saying: 'You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. For thus says the Lord God concerning the sons and the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land: they shall die gruesome deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth. For thus says the Lord, do not enter the house...'"