What does Tribe teach about second coming?
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 second coming starts with the conviction that most Christians are carrying a picture of Jesus that is simply too small to hold what the Bible actually says about his return. Brian has worked through passages in Habakkuk 3 and Isaiah 35 to show that the return of Jesus is a physical, historical, geographically specific event, not a vague spiritual idea. He has pointed to details like the land blooming, a procession moving through the wilderness corridor from Egypt through the Sinai and into the promised land, and rays of light flashing from God's hands as things that have not happened in recorded history and therefore still lie ahead. Both passages, Brian argues, describe the same coming king, and the congregation is meant to read them together rather than skip the parts that feel uncomfortable or unfamiliar.
Brian has also pressed into what that future reality is supposed to do to the present. In the series on resurrection, he worked through Daniel 7 and 1 Corinthians 6 to show that reigning with Jesus is not a vague metaphor but an actual assignment, one that requires the kind of character being built right now in ordinary, unglamorous circumstances. The small faithfulness of today, the foot-race stuff, is training for something much larger. And in the Isaiah 62 series, he drew a direct line between the second coming and the call to pray without rest, arguing that God is raising up a generation of watchmen in this season the same way he prepared hearts before the first advent.
Running through all of it is the warning that a too-small picture of Jesus leaves people unprepared. Whether the chaos is an election season, a conflict in the Middle East, or a personal crisis, Brian's consistent point has been that people who only know a felt-board Sunday school Jesus will be caught off guard when the surface-level world gets hard. The remedy is not more information but a genuinely bigger wineskin, a willingness to sit with the parts of the Bible that do not fit neatly into the familiar version of the story and let those passages reshape what a person expects Jesus to actually do.
Taught from Habakkuk 3:1-4 · Habakkuk 3:5-19 · Isaiah 35:1-8 · Daniel 7:18 · Isaiah 62:1-11
The passage taught · Habakkuk 3:1-4
1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
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The messages that teach on it
- January 21, 2024 Clarity In Complexity Part 2 A Wyoming pastor draws on Habakkuk and Isaiah to show how worship brings clarity when life grows complex, pointing to signs of Christ's return along the way.
- December 4, 2023 No Rest for the Watchman Brian Hunter walks through Isaiah 62:6, exploring what it means to be a watchman in prayer, for your own heart, for the church, and for Israel.
- December 19, 2022 Resurrection Series Week 3： Part 4 Brian Hunter teaches Tribe Jackson Hole about reigning with Jesus, judging angels, and letting Christ work through us when life feels like racing horses on foot.
Mentioned along the way
- November 3, 2024 Look Beneath the Surface A Wyoming pastor walks through John 7 to challenge Christians to expand their picture of Jesus and stay grounded as national uncertainty grows.
- June 16, 2024 Hang Your Hat on God's Truth A Wyoming pastor uses a hat rack and a nail in the wall to explore what it means to hang your beliefs on truth that can actually bear the weight.