What does Tribe teach about jesus return?
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 Jesus's return starts with a refusal to treat the subject as too confusing or too distant to think about carefully. Brian Hunter has pushed back against what he calls the "passenger princess" posture toward end times, insisting that the point of understanding these things is to be ready, the way the wise virgins in Jesus's parable had oil in their lamps. His own understanding has grown in stages over the years, and he shares that journey openly rather than presenting a finished systematic theology handed down from a podium.
The picture Brian paints draws heavily from the Old Testament prophets read alongside the New Testament. He argues that when Jesus returns, descending on the clouds as the Bible describes, the manner and route of that return will carry deep resonance for Jewish people formed on the Torah and the Tanach. He describes a triumphal procession moving up from the wilderness, Jesus ultimately setting foot on the Mount of Olives, and Israel recognizing their Messiah in a moment of national mourning and turning, as Zechariah 12 describes. Brian has also connected Jesus's return to the fall feasts in Leviticus 23, reading Rosh Hashanah as a rehearsal for the return and the rapture of the saints, and Yom Kippur as a rehearsal for the liberation of Jerusalem and Israel's repentance.
Brian has been equally honest that the return of Jesus will not be the clean, unambiguous event many people were taught to expect. He has pressed the congregation on the fact that large numbers, including people inside the church, may fail to recognize Jesus when he comes, just as Israel missed the first coming. That sobering reality is part of why Tribe keeps returning to this subject. The call Brian keeps making is not to speculation but to readiness, the kind that shows up in a person's character and posture long before the day arrives. For those sitting with the question of what Jesus's return means for their own life right now, the teaching at Tribe points toward worship, attentiveness to scripture, and keeping oil in the lamp.
Taught from Zechariah 14:3-4 · Zechariah 12:10 · Matthew 24:30 · 1 Thessalonians 4:16 · Revelation 1:7
The passage taught · 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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The messages that teach on it
- March 22, 2026 When a Jew Rules the World Brian Hunter walks through biblical prophecy to paint a picture of what Jesus's return may actually look like, and what it means for Israel and for us.
- 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.
- 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.
Mentioned along the way
- April 14, 2025 The Feast of Passover Brian Hunter walks through the biblical Passover feast, explaining why a Wyoming church honors the seven feasts of God to remember, recalibrate, and see Jesus in scripture.
- August 7, 2023 The Ring, the Robe, and the Rib Eye Brian Hunter walks through the parable of the prodigal son from four camera angles, showing how shifting your perspective on a familiar story can break open what feels like a dead end.