What does Tribe teach about crucifixion prophecy?

At Tribe, the teaching on crucifixion prophecy starts with Psalm 22 and the thousand-year distance between David writing it and Jesus living it. Brian walked the congregation through the psalm line by line, and the connections came fast: the cry of abandonment that opens it, bystanders mocking the sufferer with his own words, bones out of joint, a tongue stuck to the roof of the mouth, hands and feet pierced, soldiers gambling over clothing. Brian did not want the room to rush past that gap as though it were nothing, because the precision of it is part of the point.

The teaching also drew out something easy to miss on the cry from verse one. When Jesus said 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' from the cross, he was doing what rabbis did regularly: quoting the opening line of a psalm and trusting his listeners to hear the whole thing. Anyone who knew the Torah would have known where that psalm ends, and it does not end in abandonment. It ends in vindication and praise. So the cry from the cross was real desolation and, at the same time, a pointer to the arc the whole psalm traces.

Brian also gave real time to the 'bulls of Bashan' from verse 12, showing that the phrase carries more weight than it first appears to. A bull was the largest, most unstoppable force David's world could picture. But Baal, the God at the center of Canaanite religion surrounding Israel, was worshiped in the image of a bull. So the bulls of Bashan were not just a vivid description of human enemies. They were shorthand for the dark, spiritual forces gathered against the one in the psalm, and Bashan itself, at the foot of Mount Hermon in what became Caesarea Philippi by Jesus's day, was ground already loaded with that kind of meaning.

Taught from Psalm 22 · Deuteronomy 3 · Genesis 6 · Genesis 3 · 1 Corinthians 1:8