Miracles in the Jungle — Otto Koning

We had many problems there on the mission field, as you can well imagine when you come into a tribe like that. One of them was the language, you know, trying to get an unwritten language and start on that.

We pointed at things, I pointed at them, and they always got this word, toro. Toro, they'd point at a tree, toro senji, toro piri, toro mema, toro memoji. Toro, I thought, what is toro? Well, it was my pointing finger.

They were looking at that finger, that was toro, and they'd point with their chin, you know. So I caught on to that problem pretty quickly. They're pretty smart, they can point with their hands full, whereas we have to have at least some, although we do it too, don't we, or something like that.

Learning a Difficult Unwritten Language

But that was the first day. But then came the real test in language study when I had to get an informant in Kuma. A young man was there, and he was unusually faithful, and he would sit down every morning with me an hour and every afternoon.

And I couldn't believe how a guy could be so consistent and so faithful and loyal to come all the time. And I listened to that, this was an unusual language. And the mission had told me some of these languages are unusual things, some vowels come through the nose or nasalization and other things.

So you've got to be ready for that. Well, did I have a surprise for the whole world. This whole thing was nasalized. Never heard that there was a language where it was so complete. And I thought someday, you know, I'll write a book about this or something.

And I, with great enthusiasm, got into this language. And, you know, I'd sit on a chair and he'd say, Bano. And then I'd have him sit with me and he'd say, Banda. And then I'd have my wife in there and said, Bahama.

And all these things. And then we'd lay down on the floor and he'd say something else. And we'd kneel down and we'd run and we'd do all kinds of crazy things. And we'd get all these forms. It was exciting there the first day until we ran out of concrete stuff.

But anyway, Kuma was doing all this and I tried to mimic him. And he would always sit there grinning at me. And I wondered why he was grinning at me. And I went to the village and tried my language on the people and they just laughed.

They just laughed and it was humiliating. It really was. And so I thought, well, they had prepared me for that. You're going to make many mistakes. You're going to have to take it in stride. Try hard and work on it.

And so on. And don't give up. So I'd go back with Kuma and I'd try to listen to him and talk and mimic what he's saying. And on and on. And after a few more weeks of this, I thought, now I'll try to, you know.

And I went to the village and now they blew this horn, this wooden big foghorn kind of. And they blew that calling all the people to the village. And this is what they were doing. And later I found out they're calling everybody to come laugh at the missionary.

He's come to entertain us. And that was humiliating. I didn't, you know, they had prepared me. But I didn't think it would be this bad. I mean, the more I said, the more they'd hold their belly, stood there laughing.

And they'd call each other. The missionary has come to the village. Of course, they don't have TVs or radios or anything else. So this, you know, the only entertainment they have is fighting. And you can do that so much.

And then the rest is boring time. So I couldn't believe it. I said, Kuma, what am I doing wrong? They're all laughing at me. And he says, Turan, you talk so funny. I can hardly keep from laughing myself.

And I still couldn't figure this out. And I said to my wife, come here and sit with me. And you listen intently to him and listen to me. And tell me what I'm doing wrong. There's something obviously wrong.

And she said, after the session, she said, I don't. She says, don't get discouraged. You sound good. You sound, you're doing all right. I don't know what it is. And finally, I found six months of language study.

And I wrote down all these word lists. Six months later, I find out that Kuma had a speech impediment. And I'm learning to see. And the speech impediment was through the nasalization. And I'm learning to do this.

Once I got a French that shone it in his mouth. I said, talk with your mouth open. So I can see what you're doing with your tongue in there. And he says, get this fire out of my mouth. And this kind of thing.

And you know these people, this is the way they were. You know why he was so faithful? They put him up to it. They said, you teach him the language bad so we can laugh at him. And that's why he was afraid to go to jungle and go to fishing and so on.

Because they said, we'll put a hexie on you if you don't. And so, man, this whole village had set this up. And I've been six months doing language study. And I wonder, good night all this time. And who knows the language anyway?

You know, I got about four guys. Asked them all the same things. And if two of them agreed, I'd say, well, that's got to be the language. But many times, all four said something different. And it was wild.

Taha's Death and the Need to Communicate the Gospel

But during this time, I sat with a dying boy named Taha. He was about 11, 12 years old. We had treated him, but we couldn't. We were losing him. He got really thin. And now the whole village went out.

They do everything together as a group. And they went out fishing and hunting. And they left Taha in our care. They just went off. Well, he's going to die anyway. And can you imagine a young lad there, laying there in this dirty hut.

And I'm sitting beside him. And I don't know the language. Boy, that motivates you to learn the language. Well, what I did is I knew I'm not a good language student. I said, God, you've got to give me the gift of tongues.

You did it for Peter and John and those guys at Pentecost. This boy is dying. And he's looking at me with these longing eyes, hollow eyes now. And he's even grabbing for my hand. So that's telling you he's, you know, fear of death on his face.

Can you put yourself in a situation where I'm looking at this. I said, oh, God, he doesn't understand my language. I don't understand his language. We can't communicate. And I wondered why God ever messed it up, you know, back at Babel.

You know, New Guinea is a linguistic nightmare, you know. No, God didn't mess it up at Babel. God had a reason for doing it. But I believe the problem that started there, he could solve that problem. That's what I was looking for.

And finally, I said to him, Taha, say this name, say this word after me, Jesus. And he said, Jesus, Jesus. And I thought maybe by saying the name Jesus, could he possibly be saved? And I noticed as he was coming to the end, he'd say that name, and he grabbed my hand and squeezed it just ever so little, as much strength he had.

And he died saying that name. Now, what do you think? You know, it's the only name by which men can be saved. But that's all he did was say the name Jesus. And I sure wondered, is this boy going to be in heaven or not?

Spiritual Blindness and Opposition to the Gospel

What a day it was when I could start getting the gospel to these people. And I thought, now I'll be able to win them. I finally got the language. The big problem is over. And so I'm talking to these people, and they all come to church.

They always want to see what I got to say. I tell them some news that I hear on the radio, kind of an attraction. And they would listen and hear that, and they would laugh and comment on the things I would tell them.

And then I'd preach the gospel, and it would just like be a blanket. They just didn't react. There was no communication at all. I could talk the language. I could talk about other things, and they would respond.

But when I came to preaching the gospel of Christ, they just sat there like stone-faced. And you know what it is. It was this demonic thing. And I mentioned that in the snake story, you know, how I didn't know the authority over Satan and so on, how to resist him, whatever, to clear.

But in 2 Corinthians 2 .4, we read about how the God of this world blinds the minds of those that believe not. And that's exactly what happened. As soon as I start, he'd have other thoughts in their minds.

They were like tuned into another channel. And I'm trying to get them awake or trying to get them to understand, and there's nothing at all. I went on that and struggled with that. I thought, I learned the language, but what is this problem?

And I went on years not knowing what to do. And finally, as I tell this in the snake story, you know how I got the book by Tim LaHaye and how I learned the authority of the spirit for life and the authority over Satan and so on.

And now finally, we were able in the name of Jesus Christ to address this and command the evil spirits not to interfere with the communication of the gospel and how this thing was freed up in church after church.

And how they could now, they themselves said to me, we can hear you now with our stomachs, you know. The communication is over the heart, they said, with the stomachs. And they can hear, before we could hear you with our ears, now we can hear you down here.

Now, can you imagine when that point came, what a thrilling thing to me that now I can reach these people. I know the language and they can hear me now. But an amazing thing happened now. There was another problem that I never had expected.

Being Called a Liar While Preaching the Truth

And that was, they listened to me. They listened to me tell things. They said, Thuan, you're such a good liar. They can understand what I was saying. And I thought, no, I said, I'm not lying to you. I'm telling you the truth.

And Thuan, you know why you're such a good liar? Because you're so convincing. I had told them things of, you know, like, and before the service, to get them in there, I would tell them things, what the radio said.

It was in the years when John F. Kennedy was killed. And I said, our chief was killed. They said, Thuan, you mean you got a chief in your village? I said, yeah. I said, and he says, you mean you white folk killed your chief too?

And I said, hey, those white folk I know better than the black folk or the yellow folk. I mean, we're all the same. They thought, you know, that's the only ones they met that were Christians, you know.

And they, you know, we shall never see you beat your wife and so on. At least I didn't do it in public. And so they thought we were all, you know, that how could one of us kill somebody else? I told them about the men walking on the moon.

It happened to be a full moon. I said, you know something? There's two people, two men from the village of America that are walking on the moon. And they said, Thuan, we looked at the moon last night.

We couldn't see him. But it's a super good lie, Thuan. How can you come? We could never think of a lie that good. I was in the line for being chief. I mean, the best liar. And they said, Thuan, how do you think him up?

I said, I'm not thinking this up. This is true. And I sit there and see. You know, they said, Thuan, we want to believe you. We really want to believe you. But we know we can't because it isn't the truth.

And I'd say, look, we came on this big airplane. We were on a 747. And I described how there were many seats. And my whole family and peoples in. And aisles in it. And all the whole church could have fit.

Half of the amended church could have fit into it. And they said it was such, Thuan, you don't understand, Thuan, how heavy that would be. It would fall down. I mean, all they had seen was a little Cessna airstrip.

A Cessna plane coming on our little 1150 foot airstrip. You know, dirt strip, grass strip. And finally they said, Thuan, tell him to land here and we'll believe you. I said, ah, he couldn't even turn around here.

I mean, he'd sink right through the dirt into the swamp. And, ah, see, Thuan, you expect us to believe. One guy said, Thuan, you said Jesus died for me many, many years ago. You said many moons ago. And how, he didn't even know my name.

He did know your name. Thuan, you can't. I mean, they wouldn't believe me. And one time they said, one guy says, you know why you're such a good liar? Because you believe it yourself. I said, they said.

Spiritual Warfare and the Challenge of Abandoning Witchcraft

Now I go back to the word of God and I say, now how do I. Now, you know, other things, I found answers, you know, dig in, language study, and found answers in spiritual warfare to overcome this demonic thing.

And I'm searching in the Bible and praying. I said, God, what do I, how can I convince them that I'm telling the truth? And I'm telling them to burn their bags of witchcraft and all, you know. And they said, no way, Thuan, the demons will kill us.

You know, I mean, they'll ruin, Thuan, you know. And now maybe if I give you a parallel and to show you what, something that maybe that fits into our culture is, suppose a UFO, okay. Suppose a UFO or spaceship landed in your backyard, okay.

And these little green men came out or whatever color they are, doesn't matter. They came out. And what would you do? Would you invite them in or would you, I think I'd probably head out the front door.

But now here's this green men talking to you and they're saying, you know what? You know, you can live forever if you give up all your religion and you throw away all your stuff and you get rid of your Bible and you give up everything everybody's told you and you start listening exactly to what I say, do what I say, you're going to live forever.

Now, what would you say? Listen, little green man. Hey, I'm not going to give it all up. Who are you and where do you come from? I mean, no way. Now that's about the way that they're looking at me saying, hey, just a minute, tall white man.

Where do you come from? I mean, you came on that airplane, but who told you this? Hey, you know something? If we burn the bag of witchcraft, you know what's going to happen to us and my family. The curse will be on.

They're making sacrifices, putting little meat in the trees or little sacrifices for the demons. And what they're doing is appeasing the evil spirits and it's like a peaceful coexistence. They try to keep it that way.

Demons, we're giving you this food. We're doing what you said. Now you leave us alone, don't make life hard for us and don't put a curse on us, whatever. And it's this coexistence. I said, Tulana, if we mess that up, we can't give away our, we can't start believing in other stuff.

We can't, you know, see what I'm saying? There is no way they're going to believe me. And that's what I say. You're such a fantastic liar. You're fun to listen to. And I'm saying, oh, God, how? And every missionary in a native tribe and an unreached people will come to this point where he says, hey, how am I convinced, Tim, that I'm telling the truth?

And so I find no answer from the Word of God. And I'm praying and I said, God, I don't know what to do. I thought the language was the problem. That was simple compared to this. I thought this barrier, the demonic barrier was a problem.

But this, I don't know what to do. And I just kept praying. I said, God, this is beyond me. We need miracles. We need you to somehow show them. Then I started reading the Gospels and Acts, and I found out that Jesus ran into the same type of problem.

They said, oh, no, no, he hasn't got any education. He came from Nazareth. What's Nazareth? Nothing comes from there. And they weren't going to believe him. Who is he anyway? And remember the disciples, they were a bunch of fishermen, and they had no education.

How could they believe them? They still smelled fishy, and they're trying to preach. And then so, but what was it? As I studied this thing through, what was it that caused them to believe? It was a fact that they did mighty works.

Miracles as Signs Confirming the Gospel

Without these special miracles that Jesus did, I mean, they end up saying he was the Son of God. He, look what he did, raised the dead, and, you know, healed the sick, and all kinds of things happened.

And the same with the disciples, Peter and James and John, and later the Apostle Paul, and so on. And I said, God, I see how you did it. There was all these miracles. But we live in a day now where all these things have passed away.

You know, 1 Corinthians 13, you know, all these things have long passed away. That was back for the early church. And I said, wow, you know, how are we going to do it in our day and age when people don't believe us, just like they didn't believe you?

And the Lord seemed to say, well, who told you it's passed away? Well, that's what I learned in theology class. That's what I learned in Bible school. That's what I've been taught in my church. You know, that was for back then, but now we're in a different age.

We're in a church age, but that was the early, you know, sign gifts and some manifestation gifts of the early church. And I prayed about this. I said, God, there's something needed here. They won't believe me.

How long do I have to tell them? I'm telling the truth. And they just grin at me and laugh at me. And finally then came that amazing thing that happened in the jungle there. When one morning Bida, one of the most wicked men in the village, came to my office, and all of them had been in the jungle, he and his wife Daya, and he said to them, and he grabbed my hand strongly and shook it, and he says, from now on, I'm going to take the hand of Jesus just like this, and I'm going to walk with him, and you'll see.

I said, you are going to be a Christian? He says, yes, Tuan. I want you to save Daya, too. That was his second wife, his favorite wife. And he says, I want you to make a Christian out of her, too. I said, what about Emahon, your first wife?

We knew them well. He says, oh, no way, Tuan. You know, let her go to the fire. You know, you said heaven was a long time. I don't want her around that long. That's what he did. And so I said, but hey, Bida, if you don't bring Emahon, your children by her will never be saved because they sleep around the fire with her, with their mother.

And later he did bring her, too. And Emahon's two sons, well, Daya's one son, Emahon's one son became my son's friends, too, and they're pastors of the Alboy Church today. But Bida, I couldn't believe it.

We had never prayed for Bida. He was so wicked. You know, we don't want to waste our prayers on a guy like that. And so we never prayed for him, and he wants to be a Christian. And I said, Bida, why? Even before I led him to the Lord, why?

And he says, Tuan, he asked me a question. Have you ever seen anybody die with a smile on their face? I said, that's the way Christians die. He says, really? Then Surabhi must have been a Christian. I said, what?

Did Surabhi die? He says, yeah, Tuan. I said, oh, no, Surabhi. Why didn't you bring him to the clinic? He says, Tuan, we were so far away, we couldn't get back to you. He died quick. I said, oh, no, Surabhi was a good guy.

And I said, then Surabhi must have been a Christian. He says, is that the way Christians die? I said, that's right. So you keep that in mind. When your time comes, die with a smile on your face. It's a definite testimony, okay?

A Vision of Heaven and the Conversion of a Village

So I couldn't believe it. And then he describes the situation there. He said, we were all sitting in this circle, and, you know, we're mourning. Oh, they wail and carry on. They even start that before a person dies.

You know, you hear your own funeral dirge. I mean, no wonder you give up the ghost. But they sit there, and he says, we're wailing away, and he died. And he says, all of a sudden, Surabhi, he sits right up again.

He's looking at us. He says, what are you all crying for? Then he told his wife. He says, get some water, get some soap. Bathe me, wash me. He says, it's so beautiful up there. It's so light. It's so bright up there.

I don't feel clean enough. He says, and so she starts scrubbing him down with soap and cleaning him up. And then he says to her, get some more cleaner water. Get some more soap. Do it again because, he says, it's so beautiful up there.

It's so bright. I want to be clean. I don't feel clean enough to fit in there. That's what he said. And in the meantime, while she was scrubbing him down when she went for the water, he's talking to these people sitting there.

There was about 20 people of our Aboy people sitting in that hut. There were a couple of them. And he says, you know, he says, it's so beautiful up there. He says, go back to Aboy, all of you. And he looks, he says, he looks every one of us in the eye.

Go back and you take Tuankoni's hand. All they could say is Koni. That was the best they could handle. Take Tuankoni's hand and say to him, I'm going to walk with your God. And I'm taking his hand. I'm going to walk with him.

He says, all of you follow me. That's where I'm going. I'm going to the Sura God. Everything he's ever told us is true. They're all up there. Kane is there. And Kane died in childbirth some time before.

A crippled lady. And, you know, I had made a list once, you know, and Tara. He says, Tara, the boy. Tara is there. He's so happy. He looks so good. Kane is not crippled anymore. That's what he said. And then he says, Moro is there.

He named, I had once made a list. I said, God, if any of these people have made it, it's got to be in the top three on my list. He said, they were there. He says, everything he's told is true. Tara is so happy now.

He says, that's where I'm going. And then he looks at his wife. He says, I want you to go. I want you to go back and follow me there. And I want you to be there because you've become a Christian. And then he told Ahiro, his son.

And then he told his daughters. And he said, all of you, my family, I want you to go and take Tuan's hand and tell him you start walking with him and with his God. And then he told all of them. And after he finished telling them all this, Vitus said, we sat there stunned.

Everything that Tuan has told us is true. He says, go and tell Tuan Kony that I said that everything he's ever said is true. He was giving me some information that I didn't know, even though I'd always told him, hey, I'm telling you the truth.

And so he lays down on this grass mat. He had a big smile on his face. And he died. He says, we didn't know whether to mourn or not. He says, we just sat there, looked at him. We just sat there. We all now are going to become Christians.

That was what we were thinking. We all now have to be Christians, like Sudeby. And I didn't even know Sudeby was a Christian. He was a quiet man. He was always hiding behind the bigger guys. But somehow he'd heard me preach many a time and had believed or something, or I don't know.

But there's no doubt he was a secret believer. Anyway, that's how this whole group came back to Abhoy. Bida was the first one back. And I led all these people to Christ. But I was very skeptical. After all, I thought this business of raising from the dead, I mean, that's of the devil.

I mean, I'd learned in school that this doesn't happen anymore. And so I thought, you know, I've got to be very careful. What could I do? I led them to the Lord. But I thought, we'll see whether they last or not.

The Long-Term Fruit of Conversion

Well, I just told you that 20 years later, Bida meets me on the river. I hadn't been there for years. And he hugs me, and he's got his grandchildren with him, and his children are pastors of churches now.

And he says to his grandkids, and they were afraid of me and my son, because they'd never seen a white man on that bank of the river. And they were afraid of me. And he says, don't be afraid. This is the man that told us about Jesus that I've been telling you about.

I mean, he lasted all those years without any missionary, without any Bible literature, without any cassette tapes, even without going to the seminar. Can you believe such a thing? And he still loves the Lord.

How can it be? And so, oh, man, Bida got it. And so I'm watching, and this isn't of God. I've got to be careful. But I'll lead them to Christ. And these people begin this. That started a church in Albury, and that church is going today.

Well, there's two churches now. They've split up because it's such a big village. And there's two churches now that came out of that group. And I'm, you know, but I was very skeptical. And at the same time, other things were happening.

Visions, Voices, Healings, and Other Signs

And let me, you know, all these sign gifts and manifestation gifts there of the New Testament, the voices. I could go a long time here on telling people heard voices. Let me give you just one. In our guts, we had eight of our boys that we sent out after they got to our Bush Bible School to the coast.

And one day, the people came to me, and they said, Ketehu, one of our boys, the parents and the family came crying to my house. And they said, Ketehu died. I said, Who told you? He says, Well, we heard his voice.

Just a minute. You know, he says he died. He says, Yeah, tell to an Aikman over there. Yeah, Mr. Aikman, tell him that we want his body sent home. You get on the radio and tell him. I mean, everybody listens to the radio skids.

I'm not going to tell the whole island, you know, Hey, what's going on? But, you know, as the radio skid went on, our guts was called before we were. And he said, I want to talk to Mr. Koenig. I said, Oh, good.

Well, I'll ask him if everything's okay with my guys. And he said, Otto, I've got sad news for you. One of your boys, Ketehu, died last night. And he said, We need to know whether to bury him here or whether we should send him.

And I said, Well, the people said that they want him buried here. So let's get him on the next boat this way. He says, What? And I said, Yeah, the people said that they know that he died. And so just send.

Let's make arrangements to get his body here. He says, I can't believe what you're saying to all the missionaries. And I said, Well, that's the way they want it. Thank you. Can you imagine? You know, I got a lot of questions after that.

What's going on? And then the people said, What did Tuan Aikman say? I said, Well, we're going to ship the body back here. Oh, they thanked me. And they're all crying. They go home. I mean, hey, what's going on here anyway?

Another fellow was in Capey, two days' walk away. His father, Hone, he was an old man. I had just led him to Christ. Two weeks later, he died. I mean, that's getting in, you know, by the skin of your teeth, isn't it?

And he dies. Okay, but he knew he was going to die, so he accepted the Lord. And Io, his son was in Capey. In Capey, they were sleeping one night with all the guys, you know, that had trekked there. And all of a sudden, he has this vision of his father.

He sees Hone's face right in front of him. And his father says to him, Io, I'm going to Surtaka. I'm going to the heaven that Tuan has told us about. I want you to follow me. I want you to go back to Amman, to wherever.

And I want you to start living for God. And I want you to follow me. That's the essence of what he... Well, he woke everybody up. He says, guys, let's go. My father died. We've got to go and bury him.

And I've got to become a Christian. And they all rolled up their grass mats. Now, if some of those guys had gone on a hunting party somewhere, and I was in your cabin, and I woke up in the middle of the night and said, hey, guys, my father died.

Let's go home. You say, hey, Conan, go back to sleep. You know what I mean? I mean, you're dreaming, okay? But not those guys. They believe in this stuff because Satan has showed himself to them. They believe in visions.

And so now, when this happens, they believe. And they say, all right, we go. And so in the middle of the night, they start paddling the moonlight. And they start paddling their canoe up the river until they come to walk.

And then halfway home, they meet the party from Amman, the village, to come to tell them that his father died. And they said, your father died, Io. He says, I know. That's why we come home. And, okay.

No problem. I mean, they don't. They accept this. They're spirit worshippers. They're in tune with the spirits. And they get so on. They buried his father. I was there. And then Io said to him, now, I've got to become a Christian.

I said, you better. And I was amazed. This young man, one of the first in the Mender Village, became a Christian then. And so visions and voices and teachings. When I was at the village one time, Yesi, the young pastor, I said, what did you teach him?

Because we were held up in Papua New Guinea for the birth of our child. And because my wife was having complications and there's a hospital there. So we went there. And we were stuck there for six weeks because of visas.

And we couldn't, my wife wouldn't go back with me without taking that baby along. And so we were stuck there. And I thought the whole church would all be over by now. And I said, Yesi, what happened? He says, John, when I realized, when I forgot everything you told me.

He can't read yet. So when I forgot everything you told me, he says, on Saturday nights I would just pray and say, God, I'm going to have to stand in front of the church tomorrow. And I don't know what to say.

God, you're going to have to tell me what to say. I said, what did God do? He said, well, he told me what to say. I said, oh, brother, what's he been preaching around here? I said, for instance, what did you preach Sunday?

He said, well, Sunday, John, I told them the difference. I explained to them the difference between being, you know how the Holy Spirit is in us, indwelt by the Spirit, and being filled by the Spirit.

That's what he taught them. Now, I wasn't teaching. I didn't know that myself yet. And he was teaching stuff that I'd never taught. And I thought, I guess they're ready for it. See, they're ready for these spirit things.

The Holy Spirit and evil spirits, they pick that up very easy. And so, God was, I mean, God's speaking to them. God's showing himself to them. I mean, there's no one, there's the raisings from the dead.

I was in one place, Kurubu, a good guy that worked for me sometimes, not a Christian yet, came to the village of Hiroshima. They were all mourning. Kurubu had died. I thought, oh, no. And I crawl into the house, and there was all these bodies.

They were suffocating the guy. It was terrible. And I crawled in this pile of people, and I got hold of one of his pulse, and there was a slight pulse. The guy isn't dead. He's unconscious. He's soon going to die.

They're going to suffocate him because of this, oh, man, so many people. And I said, hey, get off, you guys. He said, oh, he's dead. We're going to bury him now. And I mean, oh, what am I supposed to do?

And so I jumped off the house, and I found the chief of the village. I said, chief, he isn't dead yet. These guys are choking him. They're killing him. I said, he says, Tuan, he laughed at me. He said, he died early this morning.

He's been dead for hours, Tuan. He says, I said, no, he isn't. He's alive. He says, no, Tuan, you're all wrong. We're going to bury him now. I said, chief, I'll raise him from the dead. He says, you will?

I said, yeah, just give me a chance to get at him. He went in that house, and he yelled at the people, and they jumped out. And I fanned, finally, I'm fanning him. And I got some cold water and started doing it.

He came out of his coma. He came out of his unconsciousness. I said, Corbu, you better accept Jesus before you die. He says, yeah. I said, they all said, Corbu, you've already been dead once. I said, all the more reason why you should accept him.

Easy convert, Corbu was. And I let him. But, you know, so he raises people from the dead. Now, they were never died, but they didn't, you know. And so all kinds of stories went around. And then the unusual healings, how God healed some of them, that I was sure were going to die, he raised them up.

And then the unusual judgments, people that scoffed at things of God, and God would, they would die. God would just cut them off in one day. Parmenas at Hashima was one of them. The guy in Membu, in Aboi village, had one in every village.