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I recently redesigned my website and returned it to the same theme it had at the very beginning when I launched my blog in January 2015. At the same time, I converted it almost entirely into English and translated some of my previous blog posts into English. I still update my Finnish blog in the Blogi suomeksi tab and will try to publish English versions of each of my future blog updates. With the help of artificial intelligence, the translation into another language is quite effortless. I just translated about 30 000 words of text (about a hundred pages of a book) in just a couple of days. Still, that’s only about 3% of the total amount of text on my blog. It would have been visually better if my English blogs had been displayed only in the Blog in English tab, with only the headings and a few lines from the beginning visible, in the same way as Blogi suomeksi tab. However, that is a bit more difficult to implement on the WordPress website platform I use.
My renewed website now makes it easier for readers to find the sales page for both my English and Finnish books . However, you will no longer be able to find my very first unpublished (Finnish) book, a 701 -page Muhammad, Charlemagne and the Antichrist, which was available for free reading and downloading on my website until the last few weeks. If anyone would still like to read it, please contact me by email and ask me for the link separately. But now to the subject of my blog, which, at least for me, seems rather peculiar, startling, even scary – although some readers might think that now the dude has lost his mind completely. Still, I hope no one sends a report to the authorities and invites men in white coats to break down the front door of my house.
I translated my site to English partly because of my English blog from May 2018, which presents 27 different biblical reasons why Prince (now King) Charles could be the biblical Antichrist, has received more views than any of my Finnish blog posts (over 23 000 views so far). I ended that long article with the mathematical arguments about how unlikely it would be that one man could meet 27 different biblical criteria for that man predicted in Scripture at the same time. The probability was a ratio of one to a novemdecillion (1 and 60 zeros behind). When I was searching the internet recently for automatic word counters that shows how many words, sentences or characters there are in a text (this information is useful because I can add an estimate of reading time at the beginning of articles), my mouth dropped open when the automatic word counter reported the number of sentences in that my most popular (and perhaps longest) text on my blog is 777.
Coincidence? I have been writing about the centrality of number seven in the prophetic calendar of the Bible throughout the history of my blog. I got a little too excited though, because I checked other online calculators today, which gave very different results. According to this self-proclaimed reliable calculator, there are at least 770 sentences in that article, when I added a full stop to some sentences on which it had been accidentally left out (without a full stop at the end of a sentence, the calculator doesn’t count the sentence). I admit that the claim that God would guide my writing process down to the exact number of sentences sounds somewhat egotistical and insane. After all, my writings are not the inspired Word of God. I have stressed from the beginning that I am neither a prophet nor an infallible student of prophecy (and in other areas of my life a very imperfect servant of God who can only boast of His grace). When I am wrong about something, I try to apologise publicly to the whole congregation, as I did back in January this year .
I’d almost lean towards it being a mere coincidence or a miscalculation by machine intelligence. But the number seven seems to “haunt” my entire life history. I mention a few examples of those “hauntings”. As a schoolboy of 11-year old, I testified about Jesus in front of my entire primary school when I put a large metal crucifix around my neck, as I have already mentioned in my books and blog . The time was autumn 1999 and that crucifix can be seen on my neck in my 1999 class photo. Fast forward about seven years and seven months to May 2007, and I moved with my late brother Mikael into my own apartment, where I still live today. The apartment number was seven. That same year, I began working on a letter which I was going to send to Leo Meller, then Executive Director of the Patmos Missionary Foundation and a long time Finnish prophecy preacher/teacher.
I didn’t send that letter to Meller, but in 2012 – seven years after I left my elementary school – I started working on an eschatological book, which eventually grew into a 700-page ‘brick’ that was never published. I finished my book in December 2014 and sent it to Leo Meller for possible publication of publishing company Kuva ja Sana. The book was completed seven years and seven months after my brother and I moved to live independently. I received a reply from Leo to an email regarding my book exactly seven weeks after sending it (I was initially a little frustrated at the delay in response and kidding that I was coming to “knock on doors” to which Leo responded a bit annoyed). But overall, Leo’s response was very encouraging, so it was a significant milestone in my life (a negative response could have discouraged me from continuing my vocation). Leo’s comments in his letter include the following:
Your reading and mastery of things is amazingly interesting… It is clear that you have been given understanding and gifts from heaven that are not meant to be under a bushel. God will lead you, after ten years of preparation, to share what has been loaded into your spirit in the way He desires.
I have received other encouraging messages from Leo since that first correspondence, but this first message was the most important in launching my public mission. Without it, my eschatological reflections would not be read today, even abroad. I am therefore grateful to Leo for his words of encouragement. But the timing was again very peculiar. I launched my blog on January 27 2015, and in it I reported on the message Leo sent me on February 7. February 7th 2015 also happened to be seven years and seven months from the date of 7 July 2007, or 07/07/07. During that same period, I had been preparing to contact Leo, not on a whim, but out of a sense of vocation for seven years.
If we count forward another seven years and seven months, we come to 7 September 2022. What happened then? Nothing out of the ordinary. But a day later, the Queen dies and Charles ascends the throne as Charles III. The Queen’s entire reign on the throne was therefore 70 years, seven months and 2 days. Charles makes his first speech as King on 9 September, which is also 77 years and 7 days after the end of the Second World War with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. I published the most read article on my blog so far on May 23rd, 2018, that’s the one with possibly 770 or 777 sentences. The date falls just a few days after the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel, the greatest miracle of God in our time and the greatest sign of the fulfillment of God’s end-time prophecy, and when President Donald Trump (who was sworn in the office of presidency when he was 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old) moved the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem .
Charles himself turned 70 in November 2018, and in the same month I started writing my first book in Finnish, which was published in print. The book was published a couple of months later in January 2019. This was about seven years after I started seriously considering writing an eschatological book. It was also a good 49 or 7 x 7 years after Charles was made Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in Wales in the summer of 1969. I started writing my first book in English on January 7th 2022. It was completed just over seven weeks later in March that year. In the intervening days, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign came at the age of 70 years. My Finnish book has 354 pages and my English book has 424 pages, making a total of just one page over 777 pages. Books on Demand, the publisher that prints books according to the number of orders they receive, published my book on 17 March 2022, the 70th day since I started writing that book. It was also exactly 7 years and 7 weeks since the publication of my first blog post on 27 January 2015 (the moment when I came to public with my eschatological thoughts).
On the Amazon website, it says that my book was published on 31 May 2022, not 17 March. This is because my book was initially too expensive in overseas markets, so I had to sign a new book deal with BoD to drop its price by a few dollars in the American market (which also meant my own book income dropped to almost zero). Count 777 weeks forward from 07/07/07, or 7 x 777 days, and you arrive at the date of 28 May 2022 (for all these dates I have used the Date Calculator). This falls just three days before the second publication date of my book. I was already calculating dates as a very young man. Psalm 90:12 says: “So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.” After moving from my parents’ house to my own apartment with Michael, I was excitedly waiting for the date 07/07/07. Sometimes I was also disappointed when nothing special happened at those numerologically significant moments.
Around that time I also received a message in prayer from a sister in Christ, “Not on your timetable, but on Mine. “ Although it was something I would not have wanted to hear, years later it still comes back to me, because perhaps God really does have His own perfect timetable for everything to come to pass, both in world events and in my own life as well. I just could not see and understand it then in the same way that I cannot see God’s perfect timetable today for events that are still waiting to happen. Therefore, even if we would often err in our prophetic speculations about future events and their God-ordained timing, in the end we can see that everything happened according to their appointed time and moment. I conclude my article with the lyrics of Seventh Sign, a song by Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen, who fused baroque music with heavy metal, a favourite artist of mine in my youth:
The earth is crumbling, the end is near
No one’s listening, I’m filled with fear
Hear the warning, in the prophet’s word
Day by day, we’re destroying this world
World at war (a world at war)
Rich and poor (rich and poor)
Burn in hell (burn in hell)
Hear dooms days bells (dooms days bells)
I see black clouds
We are making lucifer so proud
Blind leading the blind
No one sees the seventh sign
We’re left behind
There’s no more hope, the day has come
What we have done, can’t be undone
Too many years, we’ve lived in sin
We know for sure, the beast will win
Fight fire with fire, to start to run
Don’t trust a liar, like we have done
We’ve lost the battle to the evil one
But the hope and faith of all believers is that Jesus Christ has already overcome the power of Satan and He will also overcome the Beast and condemn him to an eternal lake of fire, and that no one who trusts in Him will have to left behind into wrath of God (1 Thessalonians 5:9). As Malmsteen – a secular heavy metal artist – sang about this man in his another song Crown of Thorns:
You’ve always shared the light.
Although you could clearly see the sacrifice.
Preaching wrong from right.
Prosecution was the story of your life.
The blood money paid.
A kiss betrayed.
To be crucified.
And for thirty silver pieces.
For our sins he died.
To wear the crown of thorns.
It was his destiny.
And now the curtain is drawn.
And I can see the moment of some kind of truth.
They nailed you to the cross.
Although you walked the righteous path since your birth
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