What does Tribe teach about israel in the bible?

At Tribe, the teaching on Israel starts with a simple but striking observation: Israel appears in Scripture roughly 3,500 times, more than evangelism, forgiveness, prayer, God's glory, marriage, parenting, or even Jesus by name. Brian has made the case repeatedly that if a church is going to major on the majors, Israel cannot be treated as a niche topic or a political sideshow. He frames it as this generation's defining fork in the road, the way earlier generations of the church had to decide what they believed about the divinity of Christ or the authority of Scripture.

A large part of the teaching has been devoted to showing that God's commitment to Israel is not conditional or transferable. Pastor Brian has worked through passages like Jeremiah 31:35-37, where God says he would only consider casting off Israel once the heavens had been fully measured and the foundations of the earth fully explored, meaning never. Isaiah 49:16 puts it even more personally, with God saying he has written Israel's name on the palms of his hands and that Jerusalem's walls are always before him. Brian has been direct that this language is not a metaphor the church is meant to absorb into its own story and move on from. He pushes the congregation to sit with the fact that God is speaking specifically about Israel, and that Protestant preaching has a habit of skipping past that to get to personal application too quickly. He has also addressed replacement theology head-on, the idea that the church has become Israel and that God's original covenant has been transferred, and he has not been sympathetic to it.

Brian has also spent time on what it means that God chose Israel at all, drawing on Ezekiel 16 and Deuteronomy to show that there was nothing in Israel herself that earned the relationship. God came to a people no one wanted and chose them anyway. The marriage language that runs through the prophets is not incidental, Brian argues. God reached for that image because he was trying to communicate the deepest possible covenant commitment, not a business arrangement. He has been candid about the stakes of getting this wrong, saying plainly that "failure to have right thinking about Israel will result in either blatant or inadvertent antisemitism." For Tribe, this is not a topic to have opinions about from a distance. It is one the congregation is expected to think carefully and Scripturally about.

Taught from Jeremiah 31:35-37 · Isaiah 49:16 · Romans 11:1-36 · Ezekiel 16:4-14 · Galatians 3