What does Tribe teach about return of jesus?
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 return of Jesus begins with an honest acknowledgment that many Christians have quietly avoided the subject. Brian Hunter has described how sitting with passages about the end times can produce real anxiety, and he frames the invitation this way: the people who press in, ask hard questions, and wrestle with the text tend to move from anxiety toward clarity, joy, and expectation. That movement is what the teaching is aimed at.
Brian has walked the congregation through Matthew 24 and the picture Jesus himself paints of the events leading up to his return. He identified three broad phases: birth pains marked by false messiahs, wars, famines, and earthquakes; a period of tribulation; and the return itself. He pushed the congregation to read 'false messiahs' broadly, noting that any philosophy or place promising to fix your life is functioning as a messiah. He also pushed back against a sanitized picture of Jesus at his return, pointing out that the same Jesus who appears gentle in Sunday school felt boards also carries what Revelation 6 calls the wrath of the lamb, and that both belong to an accurate picture of who He is. On the Sukkot feast, Brian drew directly from Zechariah 14, noting it is the only Old Testament feast that the nations will continue to celebrate during Jesus' literal reign on earth, and that verse 17 of that same chapter describes consequences for any nation that refuses to participate, a picture, he said, of how different Jesus' return will look compared to his first coming.
The thread running through all of this teaching is that familiarity with these prophecies is not optional for followers of Jesus. Brian has argued that just as Israel missed the first coming because the Messiah did not match their expectations, millions who today consider themselves part of the church may reject Jesus at his return. In the generation of the Lord's return, he has said, the church will be marked by worship, rooted in an ever-deepening revelation of who Jesus actually is. The call is not to map every detail onto a news cycle but to know the scriptures well enough to recognize what is unfolding and to hold that knowledge with confidence rather than dread.
Taught from Matthew 24:1-43 · 1 Thessalonians / 2 Thessalonians · Revelation 5:1-14 · Zechariah 14:1-2 · Daniel 9-11
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
The messages that teach on it
- 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.
- July 28, 2024 The Return of Jesus Brian Hunter walks through Matthew 24, building a case for why understanding the return of Jesus should replace anxiety with confidence, clarity, and expectation.
- October 3, 2022 Sukkot Series Week 3： Sukkoth Builds Grit Brian Hunter walks Tribe through the biblical feast of Sukkot, its connection to Israel's future, and why God uses discomfort to build grit in his people.
Mentioned along the way
- October 19, 2025 Mount Sinai in Arabia Brian Hunter preaches from Exodus 19 on why Mount Sinai matters, tracing four promises God made to Israel that he says still belong to followers of Jesus today.
- June 17, 2024 Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook Brian Hunter uses a coat rack and hats to explore how our beliefs need to hang on hooks strong enough to bear the weight of truth, rooted in God's word.