The Destiny of Britain

The Forerunner to The Forsaken Promise Documentary Series

2007 marks the 90th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and the beginning of British rule over the historic Land of Israel. During the previous three centuries a broad vision developed in the Church in Great Britain for the full restoration of the Jewish people, which included their return to their Biblical homeland. This vision, supported by great Christian revivalists and Bible teachers such as the Wesley brothers, Charles Simeon, Robert Murray McCheyne, C H Spurgeon, and Bishop J C Ryle, was based on the Covenants of Promise as well as other prophetic Scriptures found in the Bible. Many Christians were inspired to pray for the fulfillment of this vision and prominent leaders in England and Scotland, including William Wilberforce, Lord Palmerston and Lord Shaftesbury, influenced the British government to support the restoration of the Jewish people to their Promised Land.

In The Destiny of Britain, Australian author Kelvin Crombie, together with Israeli academics and British churchmen, presents the story of how this outworking of Britain's Christian heritage was intertwined with her geo-political objective in the Middle East to maintain access to her Eastern Empire. In the same way as Cyrus, the King of the ancient Persian Empire, was caused to facilitate the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem after the first exile, the British Empire was entrusted by the God of History after the second exile with the restoration of His ancient covenant people to the Land that He had promised their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as an everlasting inheritance.

The Destiny of Britain is being produced by the makers of The Forsaken Promise, and was released at the end of 2007.

Oliver Cromwell

Charles Spurgeon

Lord Palmerston

William Wilberforce