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

The day is coming and drawing so near. The prophet's words are being fulfilled. The times and seasons are at hand for the glorious arrival of the Son of Man. There lightning flashes the East and the West; the Earth will endure the Lord's test. Be saved by his name while he can be found; seek his face before the trumpet sounds. The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. Before that day, keep your lamp trimmed. The day of the Lord is full of dread — in that day, who can stand?

My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance, and I'd like to thank everybody for joining us tonight as we explore the biblical explanation for the rise of anti-Semitism across the world. This brings us to a prophecy mentioned in the Holy Bible called the Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters, written by the Prophet Jeremiah approximately 2,500 years ago.

When we look at the world today — and I think all of us have eyes to see and ears to hear — we can see what is going on in Israel and Gaza with the Hamas situation. Even though it is largely a one-sided affair right now, with none of the regional partners joining the Hamas side, the global reaction it has provoked has elevated this prophecy to another level of fulfillment. This is the "hunters" portion of the prophecy. I wrote a book on it in 2018. When we looked at 2014 and 2015, we saw another wave of Aliyah coming from Europe, which provoked the writing of that book, given what could happen to the Jewish people in America and other areas of the world.

This prophecy is going to be foremost among End of the Age prophecies, yet it is the one that gets missed the most. We talk about Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation, but we forget to talk about the prophecy that will culminate in all of those others — the Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters, written by the Prophet Jeremiah.

Why does this prophecy matter so much? The two most physical proofs that the God of Israel exists on this earth are the Jewish people and the promised land. This goes directly to the Abrahamic Covenant. That covenant is the very reason the prophet wrote this prophecy. We will get into all of those details as we go along.

When we look at what is going on around the world, the biblical prophets are screaming at us right now. They are telling us to pay attention — to first understand the biblical prophecies, and then look at the world. Look at the timeline we are on. Look at the Middle East, because the geography of the Middle East and North Africa affects the surrounding nations and the outer nations. We must understand the biblical world, then the surrounding nations, and then the outer nations.

Throughout the prophets, the Holy Bible states continuously that the Jewish people will return to the promised land. That is the Abrahamic Covenant. The Prophet Jeremiah gives us two prophecies telling us there will be two Aliyas at the End of the Age — one brought about by the fishermen and the hunters, and the last one fulfilled by Yeshua the Messiah. We are going to examine both. The first is in Jeremiah 16, and the one Yeshua will fulfill is in Jeremiah 23. We will see the difference between those two prophecies.

Tonight is the introduction. We will be back tomorrow and Sunday to go through the chapters of the book. Tomorrow afternoon we will begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, covering chapters 1 through 7, and Sunday night we will culminate the series with chapters 8 through 10.

Given everything we are seeing in Israel and Gaza and all the anti-Semitism erupting across the world — tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people, particularly in the Middle East, Europe, and even in America — marching in anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic demonstrations, it is deeply disturbing. But if we understand the Bible, we must understand this Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters. It will come to fruition.

This is not a fun prophecy to speak about, so please bear with me. The language of this prophecy, given by God Almighty through the Jewish Prophet Jeremiah, is very serious. Jeremiah was not anti-Semitic, and neither am I. As many people who follow this ministry know, I love the Jewish people — I have many Jewish friends, both believers and non-believers. The point is simply that God is declaring he will bring his people back to the land, and we are going to read the prophecy of how he will do that.

We saw a major movement, as I mentioned, in 2014 and 2015 with Aliyah from Europe. Now, watch — going forward to the End of the Age, you are going to see a massive Aliyah of the Jewish people to Israel, because that is what the Prophet Jeremiah declared. We will go through the reason he spoke the prophecy the way he did.

This is a prophecy most people do not even speak of. If you look across the internet, people are discussing every other prophecy — Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, the Apostle John in Revelation, Paul — and all of those are vitally important. But we cannot forget the Prophet Jeremiah and what he spoke concerning the return of the Jewish people to the promised land at the End of the Age. There will be two Aliyas, very close to each other, which is why we must understand how to read the Prophet Jeremiah. His prophecies bleed in and out of history — you will read historical events and then they will bleed into a prophetic understanding of the End of the Age.

All of the prophets were raised up for two main reasons. First, to call the people back to the voice of God — back to the Torah. That was the message of every prophet: return to Mount Sinai and listen to what Yeshua spoke to Moses there. They called people to repent, because the people were burning incense to other gods, practicing child sacrifice through the fire to Molech — essentially abortion — and all manner of apostasy. We are living in the same days as Jeremiah. The church today is doing the same things the people did back then, and that is precisely why Israel was ultimately sent into captivity — first for seventy years in Babylon and later in Rome.

The second reason the prophets were raised up was to prophesy about the Day of the Lord — what would occur at the End of the Age. They are called prophets, not historians, and they are speaking loud and clear right now to everyone who has an ear to hear.

The Prophet Jeremiah is an incredible book to read in so many different dimensions. You see the full attributes of God — the continual call to repentance, "Please come back to me, please come back to me" — but after a time his patience reaches its end, and then destruction and exile followed. The Temple and the city were destroyed, and it happened again roughly 600 years later in AD 70, because of the rejection of Torah.

We must take the Prophet Jeremiah in his context. That is why people hated him. His own family hated him. Everyone hated him, except for the small remnant of believers who supported him, because he spoke the truth. I always say this: everyone loves Jesus until they have to follow the commandments. Everyone loves Moses until they read Moses and have to follow the commandments. It is the same with Jeremiah — everyone loves Jeremiah until they actually read Jeremiah, because he said, "Turn back to Torah, turn back to the voice of God." And then he prophesied about the Day of the Lord.

So again, this is called the Prophecy of the Fishermen and the Hunters. I call it the unspoken biblical prophecy that is terrorizing the world. Through this series you will see how it has terrorized the world in order to provoke the Jewish people back home to the promised land.

Tonight we will focus on the introduction, and we want to begin by reading Jeremiah chapter 1, in order to understand the mindset of Jeremiah and what God called him to do. It is very important to understand where he is coming from in that first chapter before we go deeper in the next two sessions.

The Prophet Jeremiah lived just before the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. He was approximately 20 years old when God raised him up, and the number 20 is significant to the Lord. If you recall Numbers 13 and 14, when the spies brought back their report, ten spies brought back a bad report while Joshua and Caleb brought back a good report. Joshua and Caleb were saved and entered the promised land, but those who brought back the bad report and their tribes had to die off before the new generation could rise up. Those 20 years old and younger at the time would survive; those older than 20 had to die in the desert. The number 20 is therefore very important to the Lord in terms of maturity and right decision-making — nothing beyond that, simply that it carries that weight of significance. Most scholars believe Jeremiah the prophet was raised up at the age of 20.