What does Tribe teach about israel iran?
Drawn from the messages 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 Israel and Iran starts not with geopolitical analysis but with a question about posture. When Operation Rising Lion landed in the news in June 2025, Brian Hunter noticed an unusual convergence of words across the headlines and scripture: king, lion, Israel, war, armies. He was careful not to claim God engineered each event, but he said the intersection felt like an invitation to pay attention and ask what the heart should do with days like these.
Brian used that convergence as a doorway into Revelation 5 and a longer conversation about the generation of Jesus' return. He connected the current moment in the Middle East to one of the harder questions Tribe has been sitting with: that just as Israel missed the first coming because the Messiah looked nothing like what they expected, large numbers of people who consider themselves part of the church may reject Jesus at his return. The congregation weighed in together, with members noting that deepfakes and digital deception make the problem even more acute in the present moment.
The answer Brian kept coming back to was worship. Not a feeling or a Sunday routine, but the defining mark of the people of God in an unsettled hour. Brian says, "In the generation of the return of the Lord, the church will be marked by worship." The judgments and events that fill the news are not the end of the story. As Brian put it, "The judgments of God are designed to remove any obstacle or barrier that hinders love." The church's response to war headlines, he argued, is not fear but a deeper revelation of who Jesus actually is, the same Jesus who appears in Revelation 1 and whose throne is surrounded by unending song.
Taught from Revelation 5:1-14 · Revelation 1:12-18 · Numbers 23:24 · Revelation 6:16-17 · Revelation 12:10-11
“In the generation of the return of the Lord, the church will be marked by worship.”
From Rising Lion： Facing War News with Worship, Not Fear
The passage taught · Numbers 23:24
24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 16, 2025 Rising Lion： Facing War News with Worship, Not Fear Brian Hunter connects Israel's Operation Rising Lion to Revelation 5, asking what it looks like for a church to be marked by worship as the world grows more chaotic.
- June 15, 2025 Rising Lion A Jackson Hole pastor connects Israel's Operation Rising Lion to Revelation 5, asking what it looks like for the church to be marked by worship in the days ahead.