Page 110 - Introduction to New Jerusalem Evangelism

It was almost impossible that the inter-twining process happened naturally by
the strong blowing wind due to gravity effect. They needed two opposite winds
blowing the two near-by hanging roots at the same time which were impossible. If this
was done manually then who in this world would enter and walk in the jungle to find
such large trees on both banks of a river and inter-twine every 2 hanging roots? Who
would cut the 25-m high tree, lay it across the 20-m wide river in the jungle and tied it
strongly to the existing two trees? This area was not public road and all this facility was
done for free. The possibility of man’s work was also close to zero. Then whose work
and product was it? Only one possibility, the works of the angels of God considering
the possible fact that the river at that night time, before the torrential rain pouring
down, was only a dried small valley in the normal condition. Consequently one could
cross the valley easily by the ‘ordinary walking in the forest’. Praise Lord Jesus who is
always with His servants performing His Great Commission!
The crossing test gave us the additional information due to the near-miss
accident. Ps J. Rengkung lost his body’s balance while walking on the beam and holding
the hanging roots at the point near the middle of the beam. Combining with the other
data of the twisting of the beam towards the middle i.e. due to the most strong current
of the river, it could be concluded that walking on the beam one people by one people,
one after another, was dangerous due to the twist i.e. the twisted surface inclination
and its slippery. (The previously-laid horizontal surface had changed its position into
the inclined surface because of the strong current in the middle of the river). This could
be overcome using more weights imposed on and along the beam in order to reduce
the twist i.e. the cross-sectional angle of rotation at the middle. It meaned that we had
to make a long human chain, and walked together on the beam by shifting our bodies
to the side, step by step, along the beam. Since we knew roughly the size of the beam
we could possibly believe on the strength of the tree-stem beam.
Finally we mounted ourselves, one by one on the beam, walked successively
together, hand-in-hand or hand-on-shoulder, while the other hand holding tightly the
hanging roots (inter-twined rope). Everybody had to touch the beam surface first by
the foot i.e. the front-end of the shoe, before putting his (her) foot confidently on the
beam, stood up firmly and then shifted his (her) body aside. As we moved step by step,
when one’s position was at the middle of the beam, one could feel the strong current
of water passing around our legs. The water surface was just near by our ankles
(remember: the beam was drowned more than half-meter around the middle point).
The current pushed and tried to shift our legs from our positions. We had to stand up
firmly and hold each other tightly. There we knew why the crossing could not be done
solitarily, one after one, because the weight of one person on one’s legs was not
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