What does Tribe teach about israel prophecy?

At Tribe, the teaching on Israel prophecy starts with the conviction that the biblical story has a destination, and that destination is visible in the Old Testament prophets when they are read on their own terms rather than mined only for devotional comfort. Brian has walked the congregation through this material across multiple messages, consistently framing Israel not as a footnote to church history but as the nation at the center of God's unfinished work. Joel Richardson, a close friend of the Hunter family, put it plainly in January 2025: "If God is done with Israel, someone forgot to tell the devil." The whole arc from Genesis 3 through the final chapters of Zechariah and Revelation tells one story, paradise lost and paradise restored, with a Jewish Messiah returning to reestablish his throne in Jerusalem as its climax.

A thread that runs through several of these messages is the idea that biblical prophecy carries multiple layers of fulfillment at once. Brian has taught that a passage can have had a partial historical fulfillment, can be speaking to people alive right now, and can still be pointing toward a future moment that has not yet arrived. The fall feasts, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, are taught at Tribe as rehearsals for exactly that future: the return of Jesus, the national mourning and restoration of Israel described in Zechariah 12, and the dwelling of God with his people. The spring feasts have already been fulfilled through the death, burial, resurrection, and the giving of the Spirit. The fall feasts have not, which is why Brian says they still matter deeply for the church today.

The congregation has also been taught to read current events through this framework without flattening the weight of what is actually happening to real people. When Tribe gathered on the first anniversary of October 7, Brian worked through Zechariah 12 together with the room, noting that Jerusalem is described there as both an intoxicating drink that makes surrounding nations stagger and an immovable rock that injures anyone who tries to move it. That passage, he said, belongs most fully to the generation alive when Jesus returns, but it speaks to this moment too. The goal across all of this teaching is not speculation but readiness, to be the kind of people who, like Peter quoting Joel on the day of Pentecost, can recognize what is unfolding when it happens.

Taught from Zechariah 12 · Romans 11:25-27 · Ezekiel 36:24-28 · Zechariah 14:1-3 · Matthew 24