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Jesus came to the world at a time when the popular Jewish understanding of "the Messiah" was as One who would intervene (supernaturally) in the governing affairs of men, overthrow the Roman overlords and establish God's Kingdom on earth. In some ways, the Jews were expecting their version of the Muslim caliphate.
But the legions of God's angels weren't coming to rescue the Jews and establish a divine government. Instead, Jesus said "My kingdom is not of this world." He had not come to bring the Jews deliverance from the Romans, but to bring all mankind deliverance from a far more crushing form of slavery - enslavement to sin.
More than one Jew who stood at the foot of the cross, howling for the blood of Jesus, was one whose hope in Him as God's revenge against the Romans had been dashed. They did not understand.
In our day, Beck does not understand Jesus, nor does Papa Cruz. In fact, they seem to have gotten Jesus mixed up with Shimon Bar Cochba.
There is no passage to be found anywhere in the Bible that supports their contention, i.e. that Ted Cruz is God's "chosen one." The Gospel of Christ is not the domain of any political party, nor of any political contender. You will find as much of the higher, nobler liberal positions in the Gospel as you will of the higher, nobler conservative positions - and perhaps even certain socialist positions as well! Placed side by side, you'd be very hard-pressed to decide which side God was on.
And in the end, you would discover that God isn't in that business. If He were, could there have been a Hitler? God doesn't belong to either party, and both parties have some moral claim upon our conscience in the voting booth. This is one of those decisions that we're expected to work out for ourselves.
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