These Are The Generations chronicles the story of the Baes, a North Korean family that struggled to receive and pass on the gospel from generation to generation, through labor camps, prisons, interrogations, and the greatest challenge of all—everyday life in North Korea.
Their story is told by Reverend Eric Foley, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seoul USA, a ministry serving to bridge the Western church with Christians in Asia. Mr. Bae—a former prisoner for his faith in the North Korean gulag— says Christian inmates are forced to endure many hardships, inhumane treatment, and horrid conditions in prison. However, he told Foley not to feel sorry for them because, “Prison is the best seminary training a Christian can get.”
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Crawford
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a true story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2019
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Everyone should read this book. It tells through personal experience the horrors of living in North Korea and the lengths people will go to, to escape. If you live in a free country then thank God ! And pray for those who don't.
N Gemmell
4.0 out of 5 stars not read yet
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2013
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I am passionate about the subject of Christianity in North Korea so I know I will learn from it. However, i have a "packaging" gripe: why is it necessary to put stickers - especially the kind that just do not come off - on the back of the book? I really would like to read the reviews that are printed on the back!
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Charles Soper
3.0 out of 5 stars A glimpse into the abyss
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2014
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How could a whole family be imprisoned, tortured and suffer for one minor transgression. The testimony of three generations of one Christian family in North Korea serves as a case study in the appalling abuse of the Pilgrim State.
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These Are The Generations
by Eric Foley
4.26 · Rating details · 188 ratings · 43 reviews
The Story Of How One North Korean family living out the Great Commission for more than 50 years.
Kindle Edition, 122 pages
Published September 24th 2012
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Brenton
Apr 21, 2013Brenton rated it really liked it
I know of no other book like this--a rare glimpse at Christianity in North Korea. In 1907 missionary Jonathan Goforth experienced a great revival in Korea. Even Pyongyang experienced a "Pyongyang Pentecost." But with the rise Kim Il Sung, who styled himself a god, Christians were hunted down, thrown into concentration camps, and exterminated. But Christianity has survived. Here is the story of several generations in one family who defied the North Korean regime and practiced their faith in the darkest country in the world. The story is told by defectors now living in South Korea. The text is not especially well written, but nevertheless intriguing. (less)
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Tiffany Taylor
Jan 31, 2018Tiffany Taylor rated it it was amazing
Read this book from cover to cover in one sitting. Could not put it down!!!
This book highlights the courageous and audacious faith of one family who lives boldly for Christ in the midst of constant overt persecution for decades in North Korea. Their lives call into question the reader’s response to Jesus’ “Who do YOU say that I am?” question, with the way you live being the answer.
The transference of genuine faith over generations of the Bae family is so inspiring to behold, but also convicting!!
- Would I be able to stand up for Christ in the way that they did?
- Do I cultivate intimacy with God to be able to hear him audibly as they did?
- Am I willing to die or go to prison for the truth of Christ to be preserved in my family as they did?
These are just some of the questions that I pondered while reading this book, but also I received a genuine heart to pray for revival in North Korea. That North Korea would be restored to the Christian nation that it once was, that the darkness would cease in its appearance of overcoming the Light and that freedom to the captives there will materialize here on earth as it is in heaven.
A must read that will leave you inspired to “continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourself were suffering” Hebrews 13:3 (less)
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Kimberly
Aug 17, 2015Kimberly rated it really liked it
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Very good. A very quick read. It has been particularly interesting to get a peek into life in North Korea over the course of three generations and eras within North Korean history. And as there is so little evidence of Christians even living in North Korea, this truly is unique.
I have read stories about the Church in China and the persecution believers undergo there, but the author is right, the North Korean Church is a whole different animal!
Again, worth the read. I am glad to have stumbled across this story. (less)
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Emily Geiger
Jan 20, 2018Emily Geiger rated it it was amazing
"Somewhere in a concentration camp in North Korea, a prisoner is hearing for the first time about Noah's Ark, Sodom & Gomorrah, & the way people were created, all because God loves people so much that He will even send His short, stoop-shouldered, eighty-year-old messenger into a concentration camp to tell them the good news.
'The light shines in the darkness, & the darkness has not- cannot- overcome it.' -John 1:5...
'Remember those who are in prison,' we are admonished in Hebrews 13:3, 'as though in prison with them.' If we are not careful , we will misread this verse as a call to pity Christians like Mr. Bae's parents. But if we are careful, we will read it as a call to imitate them...
The Lord granted Mr. Bae's mother's prayer for faith as deep as her father's. There are few well-lit & comfortable paths to such a place. May the almighty God of the Baes bless them with continued faithful service across all their generations until He returns. And may we imitate them as they continue to imitate Him, even in the darkest place in the darkest country on earth." (less)
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Margie Trevillyan
Aug 25, 2017Margie Trevillyan rated it it was amazing
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An autobiography by Mr and Mrs Bae. A short book published by Voice of the Martyrs. This book is different than most books by defectors, as it focused on what it is/was like to try to be a Christian in such a hostile environment.
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Blake Western
Mar 10, 2018Blake Western rated it really liked it
This book gives a first hand account of the lives of 3 generations of Christians living in North Korea. It documents the most challenging circumstances to live as a Christian in a country that wants to wipe out all traces of Christianity.
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Timothy Dison
Jul 14, 2020Timothy Dison rated it really liked it
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Compelling and fascinating, "These Are the Generations" provides a vivid, first-person account of North Korean Christianity through short biographical sketches. The book is very colloquial, but not poorly written. (less)
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