Copyright © 2020 by Leif Norrgård. All rights
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An Introduction
I wrote this book in Turku, Finland's 6th largest city and in March 2019 it had a population of 191,448. The Turku region is the third largest urban area in the country.
The small village of Siuntio, where my book was named on, had December 1, 2009 only 6,159 inhabitants and was the 154th largest municipality in Finland.
Location of Siuntio Church Village and City of Turku
on the map of Finland and their coat of arms.
Where does the book's title "Seventh River" come from?
The name of my book comes from a small church village between Lohja and Kirkkonummi, which is called Sjundeå in Swedish. It would translate as "Seventh River", although the name is Siuntio in Finnish. The village is perhaps best known today for its Siuntio Spa, which is part of the Scandic Hotel Chain. Siuntio has brought to my mind beautiful memories of the prophetic dreams I saw there, and the beautiful, rural nature of the village made a lasting impression on me.
The reasons for writing this book are numerous. The book gives many answers to people who are looking for a real purpose in their lives without being led to membership in any Christian church or other organization. To that, I strive for honesty and, like a skilled artist, to portray only a few unexplained things in my life that have shown me that we are being watched from above and that our lives are intervened immediately when needed and get help in a timely manner. We have a good, loving and Almighty Creator!
One of my HTOL classmates, whom I told I believe in a Creator who is good and Almighty, thought for a moment and then replied, "If He really exists, either He is not Almighty or He is a sadist!" That is probably the typical suspect mindset for atheist and skeptics.
The wisest answer that can be given to them is to urge them wholeheartedly to seek personal contact with him so that they themselves may come to know him as a good, Almighty and loving Creator of all of us. I did it myself and found Love that goes beyond all human understanding!
If he gives me more life in his grace, then I will be 71 in the first quarter of 2020. I realized that now is the time to translate this web book, which I published last year into Finnish, into English as well, so that it would not be just a good intention. I have received two requests to write a book about my experiences for teaching a number of believers and those who do not yet believe. My book is going to be a great adventure for the reader!
I understand that it is difficult for modern people to remain silent, deeper, focused and contemplate the lives of people they do not know. Therefore, I try to divide the book into appropriate sections and proceed by narrating the events mainly chronologically. I will only write about the most interesting things.
The reader will discover that I have truly experienced things beyond the reach of the human mind. Of course, as a man, I also hope that young men and older men will have access to this book because they are far too few among Christians.
Some of my memories have become partially blurred over the decades, as I did not write a diary, but I started writing this just under 2 years ago. I have used some of my blog articles as I wrote this, which I found things that I would otherwise had partially forgotten.
In my book I tell you the facts as I remember, so the people are real, even though I use most of them as aliases because I haven't asked them for permission to publish their names. I respect everyone's privacy.
How to read this book?
To get the most out of the book, read the appropriate dose at a time. I think that one chapter at a time is the right dose to get the message across. Read this openly, critically, but give yourself permission to believe in many supernatural events without immediately explaining them as coincidences or products of my imagination. Of course, I also have a good imagination and I am also happy to have it as a great gift from my Creator!
One good way to read this book is to put yourself in my position and look at the scenery I painted in front of you from that point of view. This world, where we can live by the width of the palm only by grace, is surprisingly beautiful and impossible to understand as a whole.
Therefore, it is worth not even trying to fully comprehend it, except only a small dose at a time. We eat only a spoonful at a time, not the whole food pot at a time. If we were eating too much at once, we would have stomach problems.
To enable me to outline this world as a whole, even only a little, and understand the basic reason for our existence, I have followed the above instructions in such a way that I have put myself into my Creator's boots, then imaginated, thought and looked at the world as a whole, as from his perspective.
From my experience, I know that it is quite difficult for a person to step out of themselves and start thinking about things from a different person's perspective.
A change of mindset would change the world!
For example, if politicians and heads of state would take one more step and started thinking about the interests of those who really need help instead of the interests of their own and their narrow reference group. Then they could begin to act according to what their heart feel compassion for those poor and sufferers. As a result, Finland would truly become a place where everyone would be good to live and stay. That would happen everywhere else in the world.
There would be mutual love between people. However, the history of mankind has proved that humans are incapable of acting in the manner described above. If a politician did so, he would not be re-elected as MP or in municipal positions of trust. The Heads of State would also be fired rather soon and they would be replaced by the current selfish rulers seeking power, honor and wealth.
The history of the nations of the last 5,500 years of mankind shows the tragic fact that there have been about 14,500 wars between the nations and the greater tribes of peoples. That means almost three wars every year! In addition, the most bloody and most devastating wars have taken place in the last century, due to the rapid development of weapons of mass destruction.
The problems of climate change
If we observe climate change data in the short term, it indicates that the global average temperature has increased in recent decades. As a result, more severe storms, higher local temperatures, years of drought and severe rainfall have occurred in some areas.
If we look at global climate change over a longer period of time, we find that there have been several so-called mini-ice periods, as well as very warm periods in the northern latitude. Dead tropical trees have been found under the ice cover of Greenland etc.
Given that the extraordinary hot summers of recent years have alarmed peoples' decision-makers, it is worth pondering where they came from. I do not think that the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the root cause.
Those who have not read the Bible carefully are unaware of the true causes of climate change. Quoting Prophecy on the subject: Hos. 4: 1-3.
>>1 Hear the word Yehowah, you children of Israel; For Yehowah has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of Elohim in the land.
2 There is cursing, lying, Murder, Stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and Bloodshed causes Bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even animals in the field and Birds in the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.<<
While Yehowah rebukes his people Israel at that point in the Bible, the same reason applies to all other nations as well. The nations have lived wickedly, as in the days of Noah. This is why the peoples of the world have been hit by numerous natural disasters in recent years.
Is there still hope for mankind?
I have read the entire Bible 41 times all the way through. In the approximately 7000 on the basis of promises I have become convinced that we have the hope of a better world that our Creator will self-create us in his time.
But this present world, completely contaminated and corrupted by humans, will be burned with fire and brimstone before the creation of new heavens and a new earth. Only the elect of mankind are taken up in a new world.
How can we be sure that such person as Creator even exists and that the Bible is a reliable source for the future of humanity and the world? This is exactly why I wrote this book, that the reader could be convinced of His existence and His good will for all of those who love and honor Him!
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