What does Tribe teach about feast of tabernacles?
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 the Feast of Tabernacles starts with a reframe: Brian Hunter does not present Sukkot as a Jewish-only observance but as one of God's own family traditions, shared with the Jewish people first and extended as an invitation to everyone. The feasts, he teaches, have been in the Bible all along, and after COVID the Tribe leadership team stopped trying to jump back onto the world's rhythm and asked what God had for them instead. The answer they landed on was to start honoring these feasts. Brian points out that Sukkot is the one feast that, according to Zechariah 14, the nations of the earth will keep during the millennial reign of Jesus, which means learning what God has put into it now is not a small thing.
Every time Tribe observes Sukkot, Brian teaches that it is doing three things at once: remembering what God has done, recalibrating out of the pace that work and ordinary life pull everyone into, and rehearsing for events that have not yet been fulfilled. The sukkah itself, a simple handmade shelter built from leafy branches, is the physical practice behind all three. Stepping out of a comfortable home into something intentionally flimsy is meant to call to mind the forty years Israel spent in the wilderness, when God provided completely and not one among them was sick. The disruption to routine is not accidental. Brian teaches that the gap it creates is exactly where something divine can come through. As he puts it, "When we're comfortable, our awareness of our need for God lowers dramatically."
In terms of what Sukkot invites people to rest from, Brian names three things: their own plan, striving for their own salvation, and trying to earn God's love. He also connects the feast directly to Jesus, arguing that many scholars believe Jesus was born in the fall, lining up with Sukkot rather than December, and that the feast was always meant to rehearse something the New Testament would fulfill. The three fall feasts, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, Brian teaches, have not yet been checked off the way the spring feasts have. They remain ahead, and he says they will be fulfilled in rapid succession at the return of Jesus.
Taught from Leviticus 23:39-44 · Zechariah 14:16-19 · Hebrews 4 · Deuteronomy 16:13-15 · Jeremiah 17:7-8
“Jesus says, come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
From Hope Is Here： The Promise of Rest
The passage taught · Leviticus 23:33-44
33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.
35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- December 8, 2025 Hope Is Here： The Promise of Rest A Wyoming congregation hears how Jesus fulfilled the ancient Jewish feast of Sukkot, and why he remains the true source of rest and provision for every season.
- October 14, 2024 Sukkot 2024: Resting and Celebrating Brian Hunter walks through Leviticus 23 and the feast of Sukkot, inviting his congregation to rest from striving and simply receive God's love for one week.
- October 13, 2024 Sukkot 2024: Resting and Celebrating Brian Hunter walks through Leviticus 23 to explore Sukkot, the biblical feast of shelters, and what it means to rest from striving and receive God's love.
- October 17, 2022 Whom Have I in Heaven But You Brian Hunter wraps up four weeks on the Feast of Tabernacles, exploring what it means to dwell with God now and to rehearse for his promised return.
- September 26, 2022 Sukkot Series Week 2： Remember His Goodness Brian Hunter explores the Feast of Sukkot, showing how a week in temporary shelters strips away comfort, recalibrates the heart, and draws us back to God's faithfulness.
Mentioned along the way
- October 6, 2025 The Feast of Trumpets： A Rehearsal for What's Coming Brian Hunter walks Tribe through God's fall feasts, showing how the feast of trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot point to Jesus' return and reign.
- October 5, 2025 The Fall Feasts 2025 Brian Hunter walks through the three fall feasts from Leviticus 23, showing how each one points to a future event still to come when Jesus returns to earth.