//We’re winning right now. And as a result, I want to tell everyone: Get ready. Strap on the full armor of God. Get ready for the attacks that are coming.”//
As a Christian this is offensive. Cruz is misusing Scripture and is confusing politics and faith and is exactly what Lewis wrote about in the Screwtape letters.
I don’t believe Cruz is misusing Scripture. I believe we are definitely seeing forces of wickedness in the high places, and Cruz knows that. I think Screwtape would acknowledge that Satan plays terrible games by telling people that TRUTH doesn’t matter in the political realm. Satan is a liar who comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. You think Satan was not behind Hitler, Stalin, Mau? You dang right he was, and if he can keep the “little people” thinking that they are to be too “spiritual” to engage with the political world for the sake of truth, life, and justice, then he has disabled the whole armor of God including the only attack weapon we have: the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. If Satan can get us to think that the Word of God is being wrongly-wielded if it applies to the powers of darkness in high places, he’s got us EXACTLY where he wants us.
This is NOT an earthly battle. It is literally a spiritual Armageddon, and Ted Cruz is able to see that even if some Christians refuse to recognize the times we’re in.
More of it is happening on this thread, too:
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