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‘the bride of Jesus’who needed to be brought into maturity, purified (holy) and
conditioned to be ready-and-deserving for the coming of the bridegroom. Shortly, the
bride could join the bridegroom when he comes (back).
In many crusades afterwards the number of healings had significantly dropped
and shifted to miracles of annointings and fillings of Holy Spirit. The praying-and-
handlaying in the altar calls which had formerly resulted in healings now yielded in
Holy Spirit fillings and annointings. Deliverances and freeing from devilish bondages
or the bindings of evil spirits emerged to take place more often.
The latest period of pre-pandemic era was also indicated by the acceleration of
the crusades implementation significantly i.e. from a large scale, massive and
inertially-slow becoming a small scale, light (compact) and lightly-fast. Another
characteristics was the implementation frequency i.e. number of crusades per month
(year) from 1 (10-11) times becoming 2-3 (20-33) times. NJE team changed from the
Big Team (8-12 persons) to Small Team (2-4 persons). Most of the crusades, instead of
conducted on fields, yards and city squares, at that time, were performed in church’s
buildings. The number of evangelical services increased and performed in series and
the involved denominations also grew. The crusades in some towns (cities) were
implemented in one-strike successively. The number of mobilized teams each month
became 2-3 units, and the frequency of mission trips per team per month 1-2 times.
This has associated with ‘the already-near’ of the second coming of Jesus Christ and
the more limited time available.
A unique and special occasion happened in the crusade in West Tanabanas,
Central Sumba, NTT (East Nusa Tenggara) in 2016. When the crusade was started the
congregation was mostly consisted of teenagers i.e. elementary-high school-aged
young people. The number of adult people was small enough that it raised a question
such as where the parents of these teenagers were. Why did they come alone
without their parents? The following was what had happened several weeks before
the due date of the crusade. As explained by the crusade committee chief those
teenagers (and some children) attended the crusade on behalf of their parents. They
represented their parents who could not go to the crusade because they had to stay
at home and guard their cattles i.e. cows, goats, sheeps and horses. Some weeks prior
to the crusade the cattles of the local inhabitants, including the church’s members
and the invited church members from the surrounding villages, were robbed from
some houses in the villages. The crusade went so well and the teenagers got the
annointings from Holy Spirit instead of their parents. Is this one of the occasions
fulfilling the prophecy of Prophet Joel (Joel 2: 28-29)? You know the answer!