Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has come under fire from Jewish groups after touting his endorsement from Mike Bickle, an evangelical leader being scrutinized for preaching that God sent Hitler to hunt the Jews.
This single statement, though, is just one element of Bickle’s divisive repertoire. Bickle, a charismatic Christian who believes he receives prophecies and visions directly from God, teaches that the best Jew is a messianic Jew, one who has accepted Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Bickle’s ministry, the International House of Prayer, in Grandview, Missouri, is defined by a quest to cure Israel and Jews around the world of their “spiritual blindness” to Jesus.
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