What does Tribe teach about jacob's trouble?
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 Jacob's trouble begins with Jeremiah 30. Pastor Brian Hunter walked the congregation through a way of reading the Old Testament prophets that he said had unlocked the books for him: look for the phrase 'in that day' or 'the day of the Lord,' because those phrases signal that a still-future fulfillment is being described, not just a near-term historical one. Many prophecies carried a first fulfillment in events like the Babylonian exile, but the greater fulfillment still lies ahead. Jeremiah 30:7 names that coming season a time of trouble for God's people Israel, and Brian connected it to what Jesus described as the tribulation. He called it Jacob's trouble.
The argument Brian made is that this period will function as the catalyst that finally brings national Israel to the end of themselves. He traced the long history of Israel being scattered and persecuted, including the Holocaust, and noted that none of it has yet produced a turning to God. The response has been 'never again' rather than surrender. Something still ahead will eclipse all of it, and that is precisely the point. Brian was careful to say that 'the chastisements of God are always the least severe measures taken to bring about the maximum possible correction.' God is not being cruel. He is being surgical, using the minimum severity required to produce a healing that no medicine and no human ally can provide.
That healing, Brian showed from John 12 and Matthew 23, culminates in national Israel crying out with the word the triumphal entry crowd already used: Hosanna. It is an Aramaic word that means 'save us,' and Brian said that before the evening was over it stopped being only about Israel and started being about everyone in the room. 'Hosanna,' he said, 'is the cry of the human heart that finally realizes we can't save ourselves.' Jacob's trouble, in the teaching at Tribe, is ultimately the story of God pursuing a people until they finally say exactly that.
Taught from Jeremiah 30:1-17 · Matthew 23:37-39 · John 12:12-13 · Psalm 118:26 · Psalm 118:22
“Hosanna is the cry of the human heart that finally realizes we can't save ourselves.”
From The Cry of the Human Heart
The passage taught · Jeremiah 30:1-17
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
3 For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- September 20, 2026 The Cry of the Human Heart Pastor Brian Hunter walks through Jeremiah 30 and John 12 to explore what will finally soften Israel's heart, and what the cry of "Hosanna" means for your own life today.
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