Jeremy @jezzadiah4messiah@dingdash.com
These are just some of the Jewish Israeli children who were captured from their Biblical Homeland (Genesis 15:18-21) and are held hostage in Muslim Gaza. They need you to Pray for them.
Avigail 3 Kfir - 9 months Yuval 8
Ohad 9 Uriah 4 Ema 3
Aviv 2 Emilia 5 Ella 8
Yuly 3 Eitan 12 Ofri 10
“Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him.” (Matthew 2:2)
"I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and He will tend them; He will tend them and be their shepherd." (Ezekiel 34:23)
[Psalms 16:8, NLT] I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
[시16:8] 내가 여호와를 항상 내 앞에 모심이여 그가 나의 오른쪽에 계시므로 내가 흔들리지 아니하리로다
Read Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand. After learning about the type of Juche communism in NK it’s amazing to read this original take on the earliest form of Christian persecution from communists.
“Communism is demonic”, is common to hear, but I often feel when people say “demonic” they aren’t really being literal. It’s more like they’re using the word to get the point across that it’s just evil &wrong in the worst immoral way.
This is what Wurmbrand says:
“What the Communists have done to Christians surpasses any possibility of human understanding. I have seen Communists whose faces while torturing believers shone with rapturous joy. They cried out while torturing the Christians, “We are the devil!”
We wrestle not against flesh & blood but against the principalities and powers of evil. We saw that communism is not from men but from the devil. It’s a spiritual force-a force of evil-& can only be countered by a greater spiritual force, the Spirit of God.” Amor vicit omnia
After reading so many stories about North Koreans defecting their fatherland I got my hands on a book that turns the tables on the whole idea of defecting North Korea. This guy was a Sargent in the US army in South Korea. He was afraid he was going to get hauled off to the Vietnam war in 1965. So he went AWOL and walked across the DMZ into North Korea thinking he would eventually be let loose to the Soviets and then let go for home in the US. Instead he was captured and did not leave for 40 years. Eventually after four decades of the weirdest life you could never imagine, he managed to survive and leave North Korea of his own volition. His story is the weirdest I’ve heard of in North Korea.
This book left me thinking of more questions about North Korea and it’s system of communism. After reading Escape from Camp 14 to now reading this, I’m convinced that the North Korean regime must actually hate their own people more than they hate Americans who they preach are their arch nemesis.
These stories are unlike other defecting type stories in that the ones that live to escape North Korea live in Christ before they leave and learn to be a blessing in an environment where there are none. I encourage you to read it and be blessed for yourself.
These two books are great to read side by side. Together they give a comprehensive understanding of the sheer demonic oppression over Pyongyang and North Korea from 1910 to today. But they also help to understand what we Christians can do and should not do to help.
These are some of the most heart wrenching stories of North Korean defectors I’ve read. I’m not convinced it’s any better now than twenty years ago. In fact I know it’s harder to cross into China than ever before and harder to send money back in to loved ones still there. God is still there though and His Spirit stills revives and gives birth to new spirits even in the harshest times.
How North Korea deliberately starves its people. Starving makes the mind incapable of rational thought.
