09/02/2026
The King's Divorce Behind the Balfour Declaration
Why does America stand behind Israel like no other nation on earth? The answer doesn't start in Washington — it starts five hundred years earlier, with a king desperate for a son and a legal loophole he found buried in the Hebrew Bible.
In this episode, author and historian Jonathan Immanuel joins Laurie Cardoza-Moore to discuss his new book, Britain, the Bible and Balfour, tracing the surprising, largely untold history of Christian Zionism — from Henry VIII's break with Rome, through the Puritans and the English Civil War, to the Balfour Declaration and the American Christians who quietly pushed the United States toward supporting a Jewish return to the Holy Land.
Along the way: how the Geneva Bible shaped a revolution, why a scientist was burned at the stake in Calvin's Geneva, and how Woodrow Wilson's reluctance to enter World War I gave way in part to American fascination with Jerusalem.
This conversation connects centuries of biblical conviction to the antisemitism rising today, and the urgent Christian responsibility to stand with Israel and the Jewish people. Laurie Cardoza-Moore is founder and president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), a media ministry educating and mobilizing Christians worldwide to combat antisemitism and defend Israel's right to exist.
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