What does Tribe teach about spiritual beings?
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 spiritual beings starts with an honest look at how most people picture the spiritual universe, and why that picture is too small. Brian Sauvé has pointed out that many Christians, himself included for a long time, default to something like a yin-and-yang image: God on one side, Satan on the other, two roughly equal forces in permanent opposition. If that is the real picture, he argues, then God is not all that impressive. The Bible, he says, describes something far wider and stranger than that.
Brian walks through the Hebrew word Elohim as a broad category that covers a whole range of spiritual beings, not just God himself. Angels, demons, seraphim, cherubim and others all fall under that classification. He introduces what he calls the divine council, a concept rooted in passages like Psalm 89 and the moment in Daniel when an angel tells Daniel that the 'prince of Persia' delayed him. The picture that emerges is of a spiritual realm where God at some point delegated jurisdictional authority over nations to certain of these beings, and those beings corrupted the role by drawing human worship toward themselves rather than toward Yahweh. The gods of history, Baal, Molech, Apollo, Zeus and others, are not simply products of human imagination in this telling. They had real influence, they shaped cultures, and they failed the assignment.
The weight of all that, Pastor Brian argues, is meant to land as contrast, not confusion. When you hold God up against everything else that has ever claimed divine status, the gap becomes almost impossible to overstate. He is not a powerful figure within the same class as other spiritual beings. He stands in a category entirely his own, one he never entered and will never leave. Brian says, 'He has no end, but he also never had a beginning. He stands outside of space and time.' And the point the teaching keeps returning to is personal: this God who dwarfs everything else in the cosmos is not distant. Brian says, 'Not only does he not keep you at arm's distance, but he longs to draw close to you.'
Taught from Psalm 89:6-8 · Exodus 15:11
“He has no end, but he also never had a beginning. He stands outside of space and time.”
From No One Like You
The passage taught · Exodus 15:11
11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- July 13, 2026 No One Like You Brian Hunter explores what makes the God of the Bible unlike any other, using Scripture, ontology, and a striking Messi analogy to show that Yahweh has no equal and no rival.
- July 12, 2026 You Have No Equal, You Have No Rival Brian Hunter explores what makes God truly unlike anything else, contrasting Yahweh with the lesser spiritual beings and false gods named throughout Scripture.