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fall down to the river for any reason. The third step was one had to guard one’s
balance by always holding the (cable-like) hanging roots over them while walking
along the beam.
Despite the threatening, highly-suppressing and very scary condition that
haunted NJE’s team, there were also some good news in the middle of the crisis. In
this case, the hanging roots suspended from overhanging branches of the two
anchoring trees were long enough to hold easily. Their numbers were a lot so it was
always available at each step taken by us while walking on the beam. Even some of
them were inter-twined well one to another creating a long suspended cable-like
rope which could be grapped and hold easily by us while walking on the beam. It was
not clear how the inter-twining hanging roots could happen (were made).
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.