What does Tribe teach about crucifixion prophecy?
Drawn from the message 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 crucifixion prophecy starts with Psalm 22 and the thousand-year distance between the words David wrote and the events Jesus lived. Brian walked the congregation through the psalm verse by verse, letting them call out the connections themselves: the opening cry of abandonment, the mocking bystanders who threw his own words back at him, bones out of joint, the tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth, the piercing of hands and feet, soldiers gambling over clothing. Brian kept returning to that gap, not wanting people to rush past it as though it were nothing.
One of the central points Brian made concerns how Jesus quoted the psalm from the cross. When Jesus said 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' he was doing what rabbis regularly did: quoting the first line of a psalm and leaving the listener to fill in the rest. Anyone who knew the Torah would have known immediately where it was going. So the cry was not only an expression of real desolation. It was a signpost pointing to the whole arc of the psalm, which ends not in abandonment but in vindication and praise.
The 'bulls of Bashan' from verse 12 carry two layers in Brian's teaching. On one level, a bull was simply the largest, most unstoppable force David's world could picture. On another level, Baal, the chief god of the Canaanite religion surrounding Israel, was worshiped in the image of a bull, making 'bulls of Bashan' a shorthand for dark, demonic forces arrayed against the one suffering in the psalm. Bashan itself, sitting at the foot of Mount Hermon in far northern Israel, was connected by Brian to King Og of the Nephilim line and to the region that by Jesus's day was called Caesarea Philippi, home to a pagan site known as the Gates of Hell. The geography, the imagery, and the prophecy all press toward the same point: what happened at the crucifixion was not random suffering but the fulfillment of something spoken long before.
Taught from Psalm 22 · Deuteronomy 3 · Genesis 6 · Genesis 3 · 1 Corinthians 1:8
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 1:8
8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
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- March 29, 2026 The Bulls of Bashan Psalm 22 was written a thousand years before the cross, yet it describes it in detail. See what the "bulls of Bashan" reveal about what Jesus walked into.