Actually, if he believes what his father preaches, he is an adherent to Dominionism. Which apparently says the Christians have to create the Kingdom of God on Earth without Jesus’ help. So the End of Days is not near and there is no need for a Rapture.
For example, see: https://jonathanturley.org/2013/10/12/ted-cruz-dominionism-and-jesus/
“U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — whose father is Rafael Cruz, a rabid right-wing Christian preacher and the director of the Purifying Fire International ministry — and legions of the senator’s wealthy supporters, some of whom orchestrated the shutdown, are rooted in a radical Christian ideology known as Dominionism or Christian Reconstructionism.
This ideology calls on anointed “Christian” leaders to take over the state and make the goals and laws of the nation “biblical.” It seeks to reduce government to organizing little more than defense, internal security and the protection of property rights. It fuses with the Christian religion the iconography and language of American imperialism and nationalism, along with the cruelest aspects of corporate capitalism. The intellectual and moral hollowness of the ideology, its flagrant distortion and misuse of the Bible, the contradictions that abound within it — its leaders champion small government and a large military, as if the military is not part of government — and its laughable pseudo-science are impervious to reason and fact. And that is why the movement is dangerous.
Yes, I have learned about the priest Cruz. What has not been made clear yet, is how closely son Ted adheres to his dad’s doctrine. The evangelicals won, in their mind at least, but, I am not expecting evangelical Ted to campaign with the same message except in what are called Bible states.
It is curious to observe what campaign message gets used depending on which state the candidate campaigns.. I am curious to see how the candidates sell themselves as the primaries move forward... If Jesus won in Iowa, will he also win in New Hampshire, etc.?
'rabid right-wing Christian preacher' - more objective analysis from leftist attorney Jonathan Turley.