On Friday, we noted that Ted Cruz's presidential campaign was bragging that the Texas senator had received the endorsement of the International House of Prayer's Mike Bickle, a radical preacher who has declared that Oprah Winfrey is a forerunner to the Antichrist and that, in the End Times, God will send another "hunter" like Adolf Hitler to kill all the Jews who refuse to accept Jesus.
Given Bickle's radical views and obsession with the End Times, it is no surprise that he warned that last year's Supreme Court ruling striking down state gay marriage bans was a sign that the End Times are rapidly approaching.
In the days before the Supreme Court heard the case, Bickle dedicated an entire sermon to warning that if gay marriage was legalized nationwide, Christians would be labeled as a hate group and tossed into prison for simply preaching from the Bible while pedophilia would be taught to young children in public schools.
Christians will be discriminated against and persecuted at every level of society, Bickle warned, and "will be put on the watch list as suspicious, as troublemakers, literally it will become illegal activity to stand up and speak for the biblical view of these things ... I think the Enemy's major target is to undermine the authority of the word of God, that's what He is after right there."
Bickle went on to also warn that elementary school students would be taught that homosexuality, polygamy and pedophilia are all perfectly normal, acceptable and legal:
Several months later, in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision, Bickle dedicated another sermon to warning that the ruling was "a unique signal of the End Times":
"This is so startling and shocking," Bickle declared, "2,000 years ago, Paul said, 'In the latter times, there's going to be a falling away and one of the signals of it is you will find government's forbidding marriage.' Beloved, we are on the cusp of that happening right now. This is alerting anybody paying attention that we're in a time frame where things are escalating according to these lines. This is a unique signal of the End Times and the forbidding of marriage is an escalator of the darkness of the End Times as well."
