What does Tribe teach about daniel 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 Daniel prophecy starts with an honest admission that these texts make people nervous. Brian opened one message by giving the congregation permission to sit with confusion, saying it was better to get in, make a mess, and let the Holy Spirit and the larger body of Christ correct you over time than to avoid prophetic scripture altogether. The teaching treats Daniel 11 as layered, with near and far fulfillments both possible, and names the antichrist as a central figure in the passage. Zechariah 13:9 and Jeremiah 30:7 frame what Daniel describes as a coming time of intense refining for Israel, and Brian drew a careful line between the wrath of God, the judgment of God, and the chastisement of God, arguing that much of the church confuses punitive action with the refining fire God uses to purify.
The message moved from ancient text to modern history. Brian walked through how quickly restrictions on Jewish life escalated in Europe during the Holocaust, from registration to death camps, and named the silence of European Christians as a failure he did not want repeated. That historical account was not a detour. It was the setup for the phrase that anchored the whole sermon: a measure of help, drawn from Daniel 11:32-35. During coming persecution, some people will show up for Israel. Brian pressed the congregation on whether they would be among them, drawing on Daniel 11 to say that Brian says, "the people who know their god shall stand firm and take action."
The practical weight of the teaching landed in an urgent call not to delay. Brian told Tribe, "Do not think that you have time someday down the road to make a decision whether or not you will be one of those who will stand with Israel." The broader frame he put around all of it was that God works with precision and compassion even in the darkest prophetic seasons, and that Brian says, "God will use the least severe means to bring the greatest number of people into the deepest level of intimacy possible."
Taught from Daniel 11:28-36 · Zechariah 13:9 · Jeremiah 30:7 · Isaiah 62 · Matthew 24
“The people who know their god shall stand firm and take action.”
From A Measure of Hope for Israel
The passage taught · Daniel 11:28-36
28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.
29 “He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.
30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
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- September 18, 2023 A Measure of Hope for Israel Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Daniel 11 and what Scripture calls Jacob's trouble, asking who will stand with Israel when that time comes.