What does Tribe teach about millennial kingdom?
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 the millennial kingdom starts with a straightforward position: Brian Hunter calls it pre-millennial, meaning the thousand-year reign of Jesus on earth is still ahead, not something already underway. The simplest reason he gives for that is that Jesus has not come back yet and cannot be ruling physically if he has not returned. The primary text he works from is Revelation 20, which describes believers seated on thrones and given authority to judge during that reign. Brian treats it as a scenic overlook rather than a full climb, a passage that gives the big picture without filling in every detail.
What the teaching pushes hardest on is what that reign will actually involve for the people of God. Brian walks the room through the Lord's Prayer and argues that when Jesus said 'your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,' he was literally instructing his disciples to pray for a real, physical, governmental reign of God to be established on planet Earth with Jesus as its head, not merely asking for more kindness to leak into daily life. From there he moves to Romans 8, where creation itself is described as groaning and waiting to be set free from decay, and to Isaiah 11, with its picture of wolves lying down with lambs, pressing the room to take these as descriptions of a coming literal reality rather than spiritual metaphor.
One of the concrete things Brian highlights is that believers will share in governing and restoring the earth during that reign. He points to passages in Isaiah 58 and 61 describing God's people rebuilding ancient ruins and restoring cities, and he connects the reward language in Luke, where a servant who has been faithful is told he will be given cities to oversee, to actual future governing responsibility. Brian says, "You've been faithful with the 10 coins that I've entrusted you. What does he say as your reward? I'll give you 10 cities to be in charge of." The picture that emerges at Tribe is not of believers floating in a spiritual realm but of people with resurrected bodies doing real work in a renewed world under the direct reign of Jesus.
Taught from Revelation 20:1-15 · Romans 8:18-25 · Isaiah 11:1-9 · Matthew 6:9-10 · Isaiah 61:4
“I thought I was alive but all this time I've been dead. Now I'm really alive.”
From Training for Reigning
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15 (implied, not cited by chapter/verse)
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- November 14, 2022 Training for Reigning Brian Hunter walks through what ruling and reigning with Jesus actually means, looking at Romans 8, Revelation 20, and Isaiah 11 as literal promises, not just spiritual metaphors.
Mentioned along the way
- December 22, 2024 Fuel for the Fire Brian Hunter walks through Isaiah 9:1-7 verse by verse, asking whether each line points to something already fulfilled, unfolding now, or still coming when Jesus returns.