The most significant thing about Ruler of Kings is that it highlights the difference between those who believe the world must be saved by human intellect alone and those who know God saves those who come to Him through Jesus His only begotten Son, and who therefore listen to Him, trust Him and follow His direction.

This is serious stuff for these end times. The book should be widely read before the forthcoming political elections, not least by politicians and the British royal family. Its content is fundamental to the central issues.

The great delusion

The Rev Dr Joseph Boot gives an understanding of both the development and the effect of the great delusion that human beings can be manipulated into equality and unity and save the world by their own efforts and technology. The great delusion is exposed that fallen human nature can be changed through changing language which will change thinking, and change laws through manipulated logic and consequent social pressures, and thus save the world.

Joseph Boot is director of the Wilberforce Academy and head of public theology at Christian Concern in London. He is also the founding pastor of Westminster Chapel in Toronto, Canada, and founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Canada, USA and UK. In six chapters and two hundred pages he exposes the fallacy that academic and scientific thinking affords spiritual neutrality, and demonstrates that the foundation of cultural and political thought and action is always inevitably spiritual, even when the spiritual source is unacknowledged.

The reasoning of diverse people cannot be properly appraised or understood apart from the comprehensive doctrines or worldviews from which that reasoning arises.

Preparing the ground

People bring their beliefs, convictions and moral commitments to their work. The reasoning of diverse people cannot be properly appraised or understood apart from the comprehensive doctrines or worldviews from which that reasoning arises. To be true it must be eternally grounded in creation. He describes in detail the abstract idealism and utopianism that derives from classical Greek philosophy, the flowering of its humanism in the Renaissance and the secular effects since the European Enlightenment.

The author describes the influence of the deist British philosopher John Locke on the gradual separation of the secular state from the Christian Church. And he details the profound influence of the German philosopher Georg Hegel in preparing the ground for acceptance of individual reasoning derived from isolated personal experience as perceived by fallen human nature, whereby the chaotic fruit of fleshly experience is thought to provide the resources (including technological resources) to save the world; and from which have evolved acceptance of queer theory, LGBTQ, sex change, neo-Marxism, excessive dependency upon the state, transhumanism and rejection of inner healing.

Church is where Christians congregate but the Church is not the kingdom.

Sway of God’s kingdom

Joseph Boot acknowledges the influence upon him of Abraham Kuyper, Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. Kuyper avoided potential struggles between a state (or indeed a world government) with a unifying secular principle, a state owing allegiance to the pope, and a state in which Church takes charge of particular aspects of cultural and political life, by realising that every sphere of human life and thought is to be brought by believers under the sway of God’s kingdom.

Church is where Christians congregate but the Church is not the kingdom. The state is God’s servant and the Church is not the only agent of the kingdom. “Christ, not man, is King” is written on Oliver Cromwell’s tomb. The business of government should be to encourage and make it safe for there to be Christian activity in every sphere of human life, family, community, state, science, law, academy, art, industry, commerce, etc., so that all authority may be delegated and limited under God in each sphere.

Demolishing strongholds

The trouble is that demonic forces take violent hold of human beings who ignore Almighty God, the God of Israel, Father of Jesus Christ. So “our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Eph 6:12.) Whilst Christians may prayerfully demolish strongholds and “demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God” (2 Cor 10:4-5) ultimately the hand of God will overcome the enemy when the full number of Gentiles has come into His kingdom (Rom 11:25, Rev 11:15).

And it is important for us to realise that God has closed the minds of many people, and that they are lacking in self-control. But He will not allow those without understanding to triumph.

It looks as though that time has more or less arrived. So it is vital for believers to acknowledge God in all our ways so that He will show us our way and make our paths straight (Prov 3:6). And it is important for us to realise that God has closed the minds of many people, and that they are lacking in self-control. But He will not allow those without understanding to triumph (Job 17:4). “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.” (Rom 12:19).

God first

Politicians are fond of declaring that they put people first. But how many will put God first? “The house of Israel will possess the nations” (Isa 14:2) so we must continue the struggle. Personally, however, I reckon Joseph Boot and Abraham Kuyper have indicated how it might be after Jesus returns to reign with His saints.

Marana tha!

Ruler of Kings by Joseph Boot was published in 2022 by Wilberforce Publications, London, and is available on Amazon for £11.94.