Russell Moore: ‘Christ Is King’ Is Not the Slogan Some White Nationalists Want It to Be

 

Russell Moore nails it:
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"Something dark is haunting the world right now. The old gods of blood and soil are rustling. We have endured the same before. But we must not let them claim the cross. The cry “Christ is king” is true. That’s why it must never be emptied with a satanic kind of kingship. Abominations are in the world around us until the end, but Jesus warned us of a specific kind—the abomination that is “standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).” Jesus says, along with the prophet Daniel, that that kind of abomination—the kind that uses the holy things of God—leads to “desolation” (Matt. 24:15). What we must fear the most is not that which can push us down but that which can hollow us out...

You cannot have both Jesus as Lord and Jesus as Caesar without twisting the cross. A twisted cross is just another swastika, and that’s no cross at all."