The Rise in AntiSemitism - The Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters (Part 1)

The Rise in Anti-Semitism — The Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters (Part 1)

The Cross to the Crown Series / God's Fishermen and Satan's Hunters Book Series

November 18, 2023 — Cheshvan 5, 5784

Shalom, friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You are with Faithful Performance. Tonight we begin reading through the book God's Fishermen and Satan's Hunters — the unspoken biblical prophecy that is terrorizing the world. We will walk through Chapters 1-7, covering God's original fishermen, Satan's original hunters, and the escalating fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy in the modern world.

This is a long session. We cover nearly 2,600 years of history in one sitting. Bear with us — the connections are worth the journey.

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CHAPTER 1: THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT — THE FOUNDATION

Everything in this prophecy flows from the Abrahamic Covenant. The deed to the land. The pure royal lineage. The promise that through Abraham's seed all the families of the earth would be blessed.

Genesis 15 is the center. Abraham fell into a deep sleep. Only Elohim walked through the covenant sacrifice — a smoking oven and a flaming torch passing between the pieces of the split animals. When only one party walks through a covenant, it means the covenant is unilateral. It does not depend on the faithfulness of the second party. The Abrahamic Covenant does not depend on the faithfulness of Abraham's descendants. It rests entirely on the faithfulness and righteousness of Elohim alone.

This is why the covenant has survived every attempt to break it. It is unconditional, irrevocable, and everlasting. God swore by Himself because there was no one greater by whom to swear. He stamped grace upon it — the five animals, the number of grace, and the insertion of the fifth Hebrew letter Hey into Abraham's name at the moment of confirmation. Everything about the covenant proclaims free grace on the part of a sovereign God.

The land boundaries are set: from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates. The peoples in the land are named: the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Every one of them falls within the land of Canaan — the same land that Noah's prophetic curse covered in Genesis 9. The covenant and the curse point to the same geography, the same peoples, the same ancient conflict over the same deed.

THE HOLY BIBLE IS ISRAEL-CENTRIC

Before anything else, we must establish this: the Holy Bible is Israel-centric. Not Rome-centric. Not America-centric. Israel-centric — and it will continue to be forever more. Israel, including the eternal capital of Jerusalem, is the center of God's prophetic plan from Genesis 12 to Revelation 22. The final battle of the age will not be fought in Brussels or Washington or Moscow. It will be fought over Jerusalem. That is the axis around which everything turns.

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CHAPTER 2: GOD'S ORIGINAL FISHERMEN

God's original fishermen are the chain of men He used to carry the pure royal lineage of the Abrahamic Covenant from Abraham through to Yeshua — the ultimate fisherman.

Abraham is the first fisherman. The covenant was given to him. Elohim called him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, led him through Canaan, confirmed the covenant through the split animals, and established the boundary lines of the promised land.

Isaac is the second fisherman. He was not born of the flesh — he was born of promise, of the Spirit, at the appointed time. Ishmael was the decision of the flesh. Isaac was the decision of God. The covenant passed through Isaac, not Ishmael. Genesis 26:3: Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Jacob is the third fisherman. Genesis 28:13-15, Jacob's ladder: I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. The same blessing to Abraham, the same blessing to Isaac, the same blessing to Jacob. Three patriarchs. One covenant. Unbroken.

David is the fourth fisherman. The Davidic Covenant establishes the throne from which Messiah would reign. Your seed I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Psalm 89. The throne of David is the throne Yeshua will sit on at His Second Coming and throughout the thousand-year reign.

Yeshua is the ultimate fisherman. Matthew 1:1 opens with the genealogy: son of David, son of Abraham. Two covenants, one fulfillment. He is the Seed of Abraham through whom all the families of the earth are blessed. He is the Son of David on whose everlasting throne He will reign in Jerusalem. And He is the author of Jeremiah's prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters — because He is the one who declared He would send them.

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CHAPTER 3: THE PROPHECY — JEREMIAH 16:14-18

The prophecy: Behold, I will send for many fishermen, declares Yahweh, and they will fish for them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the crevices of the rocks. For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.

The prophecy was not fulfilled after Babylon. Cyrus issued a decree in Ezra 1 allowing the Jewish people to return — but they were not fished back. There was no Zionist organization, no fishing network, no hunting pressure. They simply went home by decree. And they were certainly not hunted back afterward. The Babylonian exile does not satisfy this prophecy.

The prophecy was not fulfilled after AD 70. After Rome destroyed Jerusalem, the Jewish people were scattered for approximately 1,900 years. No fishing. No hunting. Just exile.

The prophecy begins in 1948.

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CHAPTER 4: SATAN'S ORIGINAL HUNTERS

God Almighty is in complete control over all of the universe — over dominions, powers, principalities, rulers, and kingdoms, which includes Satan and his hunters. There is not any deed conceived by Satan, his angels, or his hunters that is not understood in advance by God. He either allows or rejects according to His divine sovereign will and eternal plan.

Just as God pre-ordained His original fishermen, He also predetermined who He would allow Satan's original hunters to be in order to fulfill His everlasting word. Isaiah 46:9-10: I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done.

NIMROD — THE HUNTER AGAINST ABRAHAM

Nimrod was the first of Satan's original hunters. He is identified in Genesis 10:9 as a mighty hunter before Yahweh. The Book of Jasher records that Nimrod attempted to kill Abraham three separate times because of the prophetic sign in the heavens at Abraham's birth — a sign that foretold the rise of a people from Abraham who would one day overthrow Nimrod's dominion.

First, Nimrod attempted to kill Abraham as an infant. Second, after Abraham escaped to hide with Noah for ten years, Nimrod found him and threw him into a fiery furnace — the same pattern that would prefigure Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3. Elohim delivered Abraham from the furnace unharmed. Not one hair was singed. Nimrod saw it and acknowledged the God of Israel, showering Abraham with gifts and releasing him in peace.

Third, approximately two years after the furnace, Nimrod had a dream foretelling his death by a descendant of Abraham. He sent soldiers again to kill Abraham. Abraham escaped to Noah's house. Eventually Abraham departed for Canaan to receive the Abrahamic Covenant — the covenant Satan, through Nimrod, had attempted three times to prevent.

The regions of Nimrod's dominance — Babel, Assyria, the Fertile Crescent — are the same regions from which Satan's end-of-age hunters will rise. Elohim declares the end from the beginning.

ISHMAEL — THE HUNTER AGAINST ISAAC

Satan's second original hunter was Ishmael against Isaac. The pattern of flesh versus spirit — Galatians 4:29: As he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, even so it is now.

When Isaac was about five years old, Ishmael aimed his bow at the child crying, Now I am going to shoot you. Sarah witnessed it and demanded Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away. Genesis 21:12: Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your seed shall be called. Elohim confirmed Sarah's demand was correct. The hunter was driven out.

The angel of the Lord had already declared Ishmael's character to Hagar: He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him. This prophecy was not merely about Ishmael as an individual — it was about his descendants, the Arab nation, which Josephus named Ishmael as founding. EW Bullinger confirmed: Ishmael, born after the flesh, was therefore a hunter, a persecutor. Paul affirms it in Galatians 4:29: even so it is now.

Saudi Arabia is modern Ishmael. The wealthiest family in the world is the family of Ishmael — the Saudi royal lineage. God blessed Ishmael with twelve princes, great abundance, and oil wealth that makes Arabia the richest nation per capita. But the covenant — the land, the lineage, the New Covenant salvation — passed through Isaac, not Ishmael. That is the war.

ESAU — THE HUNTER AGAINST JACOB

Satan's third original hunter was Esau against Jacob. Before the twins were born, Elohim told Rebecca: Two nations are in your womb; two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of lentil stew — despising what was most valuable for the satisfaction of immediate hunger. He was a hunter. He lived by the sword. Isaac's prophetic blessing to Esau confirmed his calling: by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. His descendants would be Israel's persistent adversary across the generations.

The Book of Jasher provides an extraordinary detail: Esau killed Nimrod. While Esau was hunting, he encountered Nimrod with only two attendants. Esau ambushed and killed Nimrod, taking his coat — the coat of skins God had made for Adam, which Nimrod had obtained. This explains why Esau came home famished and exhausted when he sold his birthright: he had just fought a deadly battle. And it demonstrates a pattern that will repeat at the end of the age — Satan's hunters turn on each other.

Esau is Edom. Edom is modern Jordan. Jordan today is Islamic. Isaac prophesied: the dread of you — Esau's descendants — shall be upon your enemies. Elohim uses the hunters to accomplish His purposes while the ultimate victory belongs to Jacob and his seed.

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CHAPTER 5: END-OF-AGE FISHERMEN AND THE BLOOD MOONS

The end-of-age fishermen are the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, David Ben-Gurion and the founding generation of Israel, and all the organizations that built the infrastructure for Jewish return. Since 1948, approximately four million Jewish people have made Aliyah — return — to the promised land. Before 1948, only about 300,000 lived in the land.

The blood moons add celestial confirmation. Joel 2:31: The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. Blood moon tetrads — four consecutive blood moons on Jewish feast days — have appeared at historically significant moments for the Jewish people.

The 2014-2015 blood moon tetrad fell on Passover and Sukkot in both years. That same period saw a dramatic escalation of European anti-Semitism and a significant wave of French and European Jewish Aliyah — the initial release of the end-of-age hunters. The hunters drive the Jewish people home through persecution. Elohim uses both the loving invitation of the fishermen and the fearful pressure of the hunters to accomplish His word.

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CHAPTER 6: IRAN AND THE SHIA CRESCENT — HEZBOLLAH AND SYRIA

Iran is the dominant superpower of the Middle East. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has systematically built a Shia Crescent of influence: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and deep influence over Syria and Iraq.

Hezbollah was founded in 1982 with Iranian backing and Iranian Revolutionary Guard training. Its 1985 charter proclaims: our struggle will end only when this entity — Israel — is obliterated. The Deputy General of Hezbollah confirmed: the destruction of Israel is the core belief and the central principle of Hezbollah's existence. In 2017, Hezbollah chief Nasrallah called for a cleansing of Jews from Israel.

Iran has invested hundreds of millions of dollars per year in Hezbollah — money that flows directly from Iran's state budget, which has been sustained in part by Western sanctions relief and the funds delivered by the Obama administration's 2015 nuclear deal: $150 billion in frozen assets plus $1.3 billion in cash pallets delivered to the Iranian regime.

The Syrian Civil War, ignited in March 2011, produced the largest refugee crisis in recent history — nearly 4 million Syrian refugees sought asylum abroad by 2015. Turkey, receiving 1.7 million, used the refugee crisis as a tool for extracting concessions from Europe — threatening to open the flood gates of migration into EU member states if his demands were not met. The Syrian refugees became the vehicle through which Muslim migration reshaped the demographics of Europe.

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CHAPTER 7: TURKEY — THE RISING POWER

Turkey plays an extraordinarily significant prophetic role at the end of the age. Daniel 8 identifies Turkey as Yavan — the male goat that will surpass Iran as the dominant power of the Middle East. Revelation 2:12-13 places Satan's throne in Pergamos, which is in western Turkey — present tense, not past.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey was secularized. For eighty years, it functioned as a secular democracy aligned with NATO and Western interests. Under Erdogan and the AKP party, that secularization has been systematically reversed.

Erdogan won the April 2017 constitutional referendum, converting Turkey from a parliamentary system to a presidential dictatorship with sweeping executive powers. In the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt — widely suspected as a false flag — his government arrested over 123,000 citizens, fired 145,000, closed over 2,000 schools, arrested nearly 300 journalists, shut down 200 media outlets, and dismissed approximately 5,000 judges. A journalist from Turkey, raised Muslim, wrote in 2017: Given the political developments in Turkey for more than a decade, the country seems to be fast-forwarding to become the second — and possibly even more dangerous — version of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Erdogan has built 177,000 Islamic prayer sites in Germany and controls 900 mosques there. He has spoken openly of the revival of the Ottoman caliphate. He has used the Syrian refugee crisis as a geopolitical weapon against Europe.

Turkey controls the Bosphorus Strait — the only naval passage from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Any military force seeking to approach Israel from the north through Russia or Eastern Europe would have to pass through Turkey. Turkey would never allow it. This single geographical fact disqualifies Russia from the prophetic role many have assigned to Gog.

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THE PROPHETIC CALL

The ancient chain of hunters — Nimrod against Abraham, Ishmael against Isaac, Esau against Jacob — is the same chain at work today in its modern form. The nations surrounding Israel are the descendants of these ancient hunters. The conflict is not geopolitical. It is covenantal. It is the Abrahamic Covenant being contested, the deed to the land being disputed, the pure royal lineage being attacked by the same spiritual force that has attacked it since before Babel.

But Elohim declared the end from the beginning. He has not been surprised by any hunter. He has not lost control of any moment of history. He is using the fishermen and the hunters together to bring His people home — fishing them back with love and invitation, hunting them back with persecution and fear — all in fulfillment of the prophetic word He spoke through Jeremiah 2,600 years ago.

We are watching this prophecy gain speed.

May YHWH bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you His everlasting shalom. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You are with Faithful Performance.