What does Tribe teach about blessing israel?

At Tribe, the teaching on blessing Israel starts with the sheer weight of the subject in scripture. Brian Hunter pointed out that Israel appears in the Bible around 3,500 times, more than five times as often as prayer, and that many of the Bible's references to God's glory and to his role as father and husband are specifically about his relationship with Israel. The volume alone, Brian argued, tells you this is not a peripheral topic for Christians to skim past.

The series presses past surface-level support toward something more theologically grounded. Brian used the Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz interview to surface a real question: what exactly does a person mean when they say they stand with Israel and quote Genesis 12:3? His concern was that Christians often use the language of blessing Israel without having thought carefully about what Israel actually is, why the people exist as a distinct group, and what God's covenant purposes have been across the whole of scripture. Jeremiah 31 and the Genesis covenant passages were the anchor texts for working that out together.

Brian also connected right thinking about Israel to something with serious stakes. He traced how failure to think biblically about any people group opens the door to dehumanization, and that this pattern, moving from generalization to villainizing to demonizing to violence, has specific historical consequences for Jewish people. Getting the theology right, he said, is not an academic exercise. Jeremiah 31 was read as a portrait of God's patient, pursuing, grieved love for Israel, and Brian held that portrait up as a mirror: the way God deals with Israel is the same way he deals with any person who wanders from him.

Taught from Jeremiah 31:1-22 · Genesis 12:3 · Genesis 12:2 · Numbers 24:9 · Jeremiah 31:35-36