What does Tribe teach about feast of sukkot?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on Sukkot starts with a simple claim: these are not Jewish holidays. Brian has returned to this point across multiple years of teaching, grounding it in Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy, where the text calls them feasts of the Lord, not feasts of Israel. The invitation, he says, belongs to anyone who follows God. Tribe honors all seven of them, and Sukkot, the feast of shelters or tabernacles, is where the church has spent the most time, partly because of what Zechariah 14 says about it continuing into Jesus' literal reign on earth. Every time the church returns to these feasts, the same three purposes come back into focus: to remember what God has done, to recalibrate where they are with him, and to rehearse what is still to come.
The rehearsal piece is where the teaching gets specific. Brian pointed to the transfiguration in Mark 9, where Peter sees Jesus in glory alongside Moses and Elijah and instinctively asks whether they should build three shelters. Brian argued Peter was not just rambling. Having practiced Sukkot his whole life, Peter's instinct was to ask whether this was the literal fulfillment of the feast. That is what rehearsal is for. Sitting outside under stars or around a fire during the feast is a small, deliberate practice run for a future day when Jesus returns and his people dwell with him permanently. Sukkot also follows a specific sequence in Deuteronomy: it comes after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed. Brian held that image up as the heart of the feast's design. As he put it, "before the party always comes the pressing."
The feast is also meant to build something in the people who practice it. Week three of the 2022 series named that something as grit, defined as passion and perseverance toward a goal despite significant obstacles. Brian described it this way: "Grit has less to do with talent and ability and more to do with relentless determination." Living in a temporary booth for seven days, stepping away from normal comforts, is uncomfortable on purpose. That deliberate uncomfortability is the point. The 2024 teaching added another layer, focusing on Isaiah 61:10 and what it means to be clothed in salvation as a reason for joy that cannot be suppressed. You get out of these feasts, Brian has said more than once, what you put into them.
Taught from Leviticus 23 · Deuteronomy 16:13-15 · Isaiah 61:9-11 · Zechariah 14:1-2 · Mark 9:1-13
The passage taught · Isaiah 61:9-11
9 Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 20, 2024 Clothed in Salvation: Sukkot 2024 Rest and Celebrate Brian Hunter opens with a candid moment about spiritual atmosphere, then walks through Isaiah 61 and what it means to rest in God's grace and celebrate his gift of salvation.
- October 2, 2023 The World's First Selfie Brian Hunter walks Tribe through the biblical feast of Sukkot, exploring why God invites his people to remember, recalibrate, and rehearse his faithfulness seven times a year.
- October 3, 2022 Sukkot Series Week 3： Sukkoth Builds Grit Brian Hunter walks Tribe through the biblical feast of Sukkot, its connection to Israel's future, and why God uses discomfort to build grit in his people.