What does Tribe teach about feast of sukkot?
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At Tribe, the teaching on Sukkot starts with a simple claim: these are not Jewish holidays that belong to someone else. Brian has returned to Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy across multiple years to make the same point. The text calls them feasts of the Lord, not feasts of Israel, and the invitation is open to anyone who follows him. God established seven annual feasts as a kind of family rhythm, and Tribe pays attention to them for three reasons that come up every time: to remember what God has done, to recalibrate where you are with him, and to rehearse what is still to come.
The rehearsal piece is where the teaching gets its weight. Sukkot lands at the end of the harvest, after the threshing and the pressing, and that sequence is deliberate. Brian says, "Before the party always comes the pressing." For the duration of the feast, the practice is to step away from normal comforts, build a temporary shelter, and spend time with God outside. Israel lived this way for forty years, and the feast keeps that memory alive on purpose. But it also points forward. Brian has drawn on Zechariah 14, Mark 9, and the transfiguration account to show that this feast looks toward the day Jesus returns and his people dwell with him permanently. Sitting outside under stars or around a fire during the feast week is, as the teaching frames it, a small practice run for that.
Sukkot is also the one feast in the Old Testament that scripture says the nations will continue to celebrate during Jesus' literal reign on earth, which is part of why Brian has pressed the congregation to understand it now rather than treat it as background material. The feast is designed to build something in the people who observe it. Getting familiar enough with the shape of the feasts, and with the prophecies surrounding them, is what makes it possible to recognize what is unfolding when it actually happens.
Taught from Leviticus 23 · Deuteronomy 16:13-15 · Zechariah 14:1-2 · Isaiah 61:9-11 · Mark 9:1-13
The passage taught · Isaiah 61:9-11
9 Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 20, 2024 Clothed in Salvation: Sukkot 2024 Rest and Celebrate Brian Hunter opens with a candid moment about spiritual atmosphere, then walks through Isaiah 61 and what it means to rest in God's grace and celebrate his gift of salvation.
- October 2, 2023 The World's First Selfie Brian Hunter walks Tribe through the biblical feast of Sukkot, exploring why God invites his people to remember, recalibrate, and rehearse his faithfulness seven times a year.
- 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.