What does Tribe teach about israel?

At Tribe, the teaching on Israel starts with a simple baseline drawn from Zechariah 8:2, where God says his love for Mount Zion is passionate and strong and that he is consumed with passion for Jerusalem. Brian Hunter has made clear that this is the foundation a Christian's posture toward Israel has to be built on, and that indifference or hostility toward Israel cannot be squared with a biblical worldview. He has pushed back directly on replacement theology, the idea that God has withdrawn his covenant from Israel and transferred it entirely to the Gentile church, calling it a big load of horse pucky and pointing to Romans 11 and the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 as the threads that run through everything.

Brian has also been honest that caring about Israel does not mean putting Israel on a pedestal. Reading from Ezekiel 16, he has walked the congregation through the image of Israel at birth as an abandoned, unwanted newborn, and made the point that there is nothing intrinsically special about Israel that earns God's affection. What the text shows instead is that God passed by anyway, said live, and raised Israel from nothing to something beautiful. Brian connects that arc directly to every person in the room, saying the story of Israel is our story, and that the same pattern plays out in every human heart. He has named three popular narratives about Israel that circulate in culture and even in the church, and argued that all three fail under the weight of what scripture actually says. Behind the long history of hostility toward Israel, from Nehemiah's day to the present, Brian traces a cosmic story of a fallen spiritual being who, excluded from the presence of God, became, as Brian put it, "a vandal, and all he can do is try to tear down and pollute and destroy the most beautiful of God's plans."

The teaching has also carried a weight of personal urgency. During the church's twenty-one-day fast for Israel in the fall of 2023, Brian stood in Daniel 11 and asked who would be the people that show up when Israel faces its darkest hour. He described how Christians in Europe did nothing while Jews were marched past their churches, and said he did not want Tribe to repeat that failure. He told the congregation directly, "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." That urgency carried into the fall feasts series, where Brian argued that the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles are rehearsals for events still ahead, including Jesus physically returning to earth and the remnant of Israel retaking Jerusalem, and that understanding those events means developing a worldview shaped by scripture rather than by whatever narrative is loudest in the room.

Taught from Zechariah 8:2 · Romans 11:11-12 · Ezekiel 16:1-15 · Genesis 12:2-3 · Zechariah 12:1-3