What does Tribe teach about israel iran?
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 Israel and Iran starts not with geopolitical analysis but with a question of posture. When Operation Rising Lion, Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, landed in the middle of a week already full of words like king, lion, and armies, Brian Hunter did not claim God had orchestrated every detail. What he did say was that the convergence of those themes felt like an invitation to pay attention and ask what the moment was calling the church toward. That answer, for Brian, was worship, not as a Sunday routine or a feeling, but as a defining mark of the people of God in days when headlines and scripture start echoing each other.
Brian used the news as a doorway into Revelation 5, walking the congregation through a chapter he described as the center of the most song-filled book in the Bible outside of Psalms. The picture there is not chaos but ordered, expanding worship around a throne, and Brian argued that this is the posture scripture is calling the church toward right now. He also pressed the congregation on something harder: the return of Jesus is not going to be the clean, unambiguous moment many were taught to expect. Just as Israel missed the first coming because the Messiah looked nothing like the one they had imagined, Brian said large numbers within the church today may reject Jesus at his return. One member added that in an age of deepfakes and digital manipulation, even a trumpet blast and clouds might be filtered through enough skepticism that millions would refuse to believe it.
The thread holding all of it together was this, in Brian's own words: "In the generation of the return of the Lord, the church will be marked by worship." That is what Tribe is teaching in response to the Israel-Iran moment, not fear, not a detailed prophetic timeline, but a call to let current events drive the church deeper into the revelation of who Jesus actually is and into worship that does not depend on circumstances being comfortable first.
Taught from Revelation 5:1-14 · Revelation 1:12-18 · Numbers 23:24 · Revelation 12:10-11 · Revelation 6:16-17
“In the generation of the return of the Lord, the church will be marked by worship.”
From Rising Lion： Facing War News with Worship, Not Fear
The passage taught · Numbers 23:24
24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 16, 2025 Rising Lion： Facing War News with Worship, Not Fear Brian Hunter connects Israel's Operation Rising Lion to Revelation 5, asking what it looks like for a church to be marked by worship as the world grows more chaotic.
- June 15, 2025 Rising Lion A Jackson Hole pastor connects Israel's Operation Rising Lion to Revelation 5, asking what it looks like for the church to be marked by worship in the days ahead.