What does Tribe teach about biblical feasts?
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At Tribe, the teaching on the biblical feasts starts with a simple reframe: these are not Jewish religious holidays that belong to someone else. Brian Hunter points to the Old Testament, where God calls them "my feasts," and builds from there. The invitation he describes is a family one. If you are in God's family, you participate in the family traditions. That framing has shaped how Tribe has approached the feasts for several years now, after the leadership team stepped back and asked what God wanted rather than scrambling to match the world's pace.
Pastor Brian walks the congregation through all seven feasts on a chart, four in the spring and three in the fall. Four of them have already seen their literal prophetic fulfillment through Jesus, Passover through the crucifixion and First Fruits through the resurrection being his main examples. The three fall feasts remain ahead and, Brian says, will be fulfilled in rapid succession at the return of Jesus. That future dimension is part of why the feasts matter so much now. He names three reasons Tribe returns to them each year: to remember what God has done, to recalibrate the rhythm of life away from the world's pace, and to rehearse events that will unfold in human history, the way a wedding party rehearses the night before so they recognize what is happening when the moment arrives.
The Sukkot series pressed further into what that rehearsal costs and builds. Brian held up Deuteronomy 16:13, which places the celebration after the grain has been threshed and the grapes pressed, as the organizing image. Before the party always comes the pressing, he said. Spending a week in a simple handmade shelter, deliberately stepping out of a comfortable home, is not incidental to the feast. It is the point. The Passover teaching carries the same logic. Brian described these feasts as God's invitation into something real rather than ceremonial, and he has said plainly that he would rather be in a room of 50 people hungry than 400 observers.
Taught from Leviticus 23:39-44 · Deuteronomy 16:13-15 · Zechariah 14:16-19 · Hebrews 4 · Exodus 12:1-14
“Hosanna means save, please. Like, save us, please.”
From The Feast of Passover
The passage taught · Exodus 12:1-14
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- 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.
- October 14, 2024 Sukkot 2024: Resting and Celebrating Brian Hunter walks through Leviticus 23 and the feast of Sukkot, inviting his congregation to rest from striving and simply receive God's love for one week.
- October 13, 2024 Sukkot 2024: Resting and Celebrating Brian Hunter walks through Leviticus 23 to explore Sukkot, the biblical feast of shelters, and what it means to rest from striving and receive God's love.
- 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.