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“Where Is The Church of Philadelphia from Revelation in 2022?” Op-Ed

By Tonja Condray Klein©12/17/2022

I’ve been a Christian for forty-two of my fifty years and in church for almost as long. As I see what’s happening around the world and in America specifically in 2022, I’m heart-broken and frustrated as a Christian believer. I’ve asked “Where is the Elijah of each generation?” before, but I’m adding another question to hopefully wake up ALL Christians and bring them to their knees in prayer with understanding and revival purpose. Although I’ve seen groups of people all doing ‘good things’ for others, I’m still failing to SEE the spiritual church of Philadelphia rising again. I saw it in action and was part of it in 1987, so with the prophecies being fulfilled now why hasn’t Philadelphia risen up with His Power? Has the True Church of the Lord Jesus Christ become SPIRITUALLY ASLEEP? Does anyone wish for REAL Revival?

I see so many of Ephesus that I have been part of at various times in my fifty years because it’s easy to lose your first love when you’ve been hurt by ‘religious people’ who can be misled. I see some of Smyrna suffering through years or even decades of trial while the rest of us stay safe in pews. I see those trapped in Pergamos, trying to reach the souls their hearts long to pull free from fires of idolatry and depravity that easily ensnare people who don’t know the power of Jesus Christ that can change them and make them whole by His Spirit. I see a few of Thyatira trying to do good works to show loving charity that EVERY Christian is supposed to do in the name of Jesus Christ, but some have been compromised by a Jezebel that shows up as false reward but leads to death. I see those of Sardis still struggling to hold onto true teachings.

The bad thing is that I mostly see those of Laodicea that are neither hot with revival fire of gifts or cold with only poisonous chains of legalism. They are lukewarm with perceived riches that are false as they refuse to accept the spiritual gifts that God Almighty wants to give to them or a calling they fear because they don’t want to lose societal power and are ‘comfortable’ in a world they think they helped to create. They CHOOSE to remain spiritually miserable, poor, blind, and naked. THAT is where a majority of ‘religious’ people living in 2022 are – BLIND TO REALITY. Are you? Do you even know someone who is? Have you been one but were pulled out and are searching for a Spiritual Philadelphia now? Where are you in the spiritual church map? I’ve lived in every single one of them in one way or another over the years of my life.

Although being a part of Ephesus hurts, being Laodicea is the LAST church type you want to be. Read Revelation again and check where you line up right now. Before Revival can even happen, Christ believers MUST BE HONEST with themselves, each other, and the world! There are too many hiding behind their looks of superiority, spouting buzz words they don’t even believe, being slick speakers with messages without a spiritual CHANGE, or teaching we are ALL okay when the reality of our human sin natures means those who haven’t accepted Jesus Christ as a personal Savior (Yeshua HaMashiach), Lord, King, and God Almighty are in peril of going to Hell. This is a matter of your Eternal Salvation OR damnation. Jesus Christ died in the place of EACH of us on Calvary, and we EACH need to accept HIM personally!

I’m not judging anyone. I’m pointing out that considering where we are right now in the social, political, socio-economical, physical, psychological, and personal aspects of this country, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ by Grace and through Faith in HIS BLOOD GIVEN FOR US TO SAVE US should have already been catapulted into an honest REVIVAL! Why haven’t we been? Is there ANY Philadelphia Christians left in 2022? While these different churches were historic in our past and have spiritual lessons within Revelation, they are STILL AROUND IN 2022. I just can’t seem to SEE Philadelphia. I’ve been looking. I want to be a part of THAT church in these last days because I believe we’re IN the last days of the Grace Dispensation ‘Church Age’. We might even still LEAVE in 2022 if it’s time!

WE MUST EXAMINE OURSELVES! As a born-again Christian and pre-tribulation believer of the prophecies written in the Christian Holy Bible, I have been studying this for forty years. Do I have all the answers? NO. Do I think the Christian Holy Bible does? YES! If so, then why are churches not addressing what is going on in this world RIGHT NOW? I’D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW! The only answer I’ve come up with is that people are refusing to BELIEVE in what the Christian Holy Bible says because they’ve been brainwashed, lied to, and basically BLINDED to what is NOW HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM that the Christian Holy Bible TOLD US WOULD HAPPEN! They can’t SEE IT. It just doesn’t register to their awareness. They’ve accepted a reality that DOESN’T EXIST. It’s all Deception!

I don’t know if the last Great Deception will be alien ancestors, climate change, or some other thing humanity will come up with, but the inability to critically THINK is a MAJOR PROBLEM for humanity! Reading classic literature is no longer encouraged, and when it comes to proven history differing opinions are discouraged. So-called ‘educators’ want all to be ‘group thought’ instead, and that is ignorant and destructive. Satan is LAUGHING. Do you understand? SATAN IS LAUGHING AT ALL OF HUMANITY! Christians gave up education to the enemy decades ago, and yet so many don’t seem to understand HOW America is teetering on the chasm to one of the levels of Hell now! Some didn’t get teachings like I did that MADE a student QUESTION ideas before making a “theory” into a PROVEN absolute, and that’s awful.

I know I write A LOT about the degradation of education in America in these Op-Ed’s, but as a continual learner, reader, researcher, and Christian Apologist, I MUST point out these things while I still have access to get the message out to whomever this is meant for and needs before it’s too late. I don’t know if Jesus Christ will come back in 2022, BUT HE STILL COULD! He COULD come back ANYTIME from this point on. Whether in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 or beyond I KNOW HE WILL. It might not happen the way Christian movies have shown it or even similar to how the movie ENDGAME showed people disappearing, but it’s not a matter of IF or HOW… the matter is WHEN. For my fifty years it’s been taught that a Christian Revival will happen BEFORE Christians are taken, but what if it doesn’t?

I want as many people who can be to be saved by Faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ that purchased EVERY single person’s pardon if you will simply BELIEVE and allow Jesus Christ to restore you to family status with Father God Almighty of Creation BEFORE the Great Tribulation happens on Earth. You can read the Christian Holy Bible Revelation at blueletterbible.org for FREE in various versions. IT IS REAL NOW AND WILL BE LATER. ALL of it hasn’t already happened. THIS isn’t a fable or story to force you into a religious experience. This is a Historical Past being referenced as churches that DID exist but are ALSO in prophecy NOW. They STILL are here in some form as last things DO HAPPEN. Prophetic Christians believe we will be supernaturally taken to safety BEFORE first judgment seal is broken in Chapter 5.

Twenty-one judgements are SCARY even when put in archaic descriptions. We now have technological relevance that shows HOW it could happen NOW when in ancient times it seemed impossible. It still seemed that way centuries ago and even the decades before 2022. Compare the Christian Holy Bible prophetic passages to the historical evidence, proven scientific facts, real archaeological findings, and current substantiated news. If you place the timelines with specifics then it becomes easier to see they line up to what the Christian Holy Bible said would happen and WHEN. The Christian Holy Bible stated that the Earth had a ‘circumference’ while regular people still claimed it was flat. I think I’d rather believe the Christian Holy Bible instead of worldly teachings, especially when my ETERNAL SOUL is at stake of missing Heaven!

I’ve studied different religions over the years as I met people with them and wanted to know the religion’s history and where it differed from Christianity. After thirty-seven years of study, I still believe Christianity is the one true religion with Judaism as a foundation of the Old Testament that was originally in their writings. There are Jews who have accepted Jesus Christ as Yeshua (their Messiah) since their own research has proven this conclusion too, and they have been saved as Messianic-Jews. Factual research is the way to compare and contrast to then conclude that evidence has been proven as without doubt for you personally. I might have questions and doubts about certain teachings by others related to my faith, but I’ve known the LOVE of Jesus Christ as MY Savior, and once you know HIM personally, He NEVER leaves YOU.

I have my moments of emotional breakdown about daily things that drive me crazy and cause me to ask my Jesus where He is at that moment. He ALWAYS shows me in some way that can’t be coincidence, and then I am reminded that He is the Potter and I am the clay. He is God Almighty incarnate and I am flesh not yet redeemed physically but reclaimed by soul already. Jesus Christ is NOT a genie. Jesus Christ is NOT Someone we serve ONLY at Easter or Christmas. Jesus Christ IS the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE! He IS the Savior of the world so ANYONE can accept HIM. HE IS I AM in human form so He could die in humanity’s place for the sin in each human’s blood by birth. God Almighty of Creation loved humanity so much He had part of Himself born as Jesus Christ to die FOR US so He didn’t have to be without us.

Sin is the kryptonite that Satan (fallen Lucifer that was once a worship angel in Heaven) uses against humanity to keep us from accepting Jesus Christ as Savior just so he can fool as many as he can to separate them from God Almighty to hurt the Creator as revenge for God Almighty loving humanity so much that He made the plan for Jesus Christ (the life essence of God) to be born as a sinless human, die in each person’s place, rise again to give new life to each believer, and return to take ALL believers to Heaven. This plan was made BEFORE humanity was created, and that infuriated Lucifer. JESUS CHRIST LOVES EVERY PERSON WHO HAS EVER LIVED AND WILL EVER LIVE. Accepting Jesus is the way to interfere with the evil plans Satan and his demons (other fallen angels) have. “Philadelphia” needs to share it!

Russia, China, and Iran are now lining up the way the Christian Holy Bible spoke of in Old and New Testament prophecies, so that should REALLY be a WARNING to Christians to understand the TIME IT IS! There might only be two more prophecies to be fulfilled: the last soul to accept Jesus as Savior to be saved in the Grace Dispensation and the last Jewish person that needs to have returned physically to Israel right before or at the time the Rapture (‘calling away’, spiritual translation, or supernatural removal) of Christian believers happens. Revival is spoken of happening too, but it might not be the way any of us thinks it will be. After the recent Covid-19 pandemic, a revival might have been halted, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still happen the way those of us in 1987 were expecting then… maybe better now too!

Where are you, church of Philadelphia in 2022? We have a LOT of Ephesus now, but you can change to become Philadelphia! Each of the churches was given a way in Revelation to leave a state of failure to become part of the church of REVIVAL! Even Laodicea can break free and be restored to soul-saving Gospel sharing. No matter which church you are right now, you can ask God the Father to forgive you by Faith in Jesus Christ and be placed where you were meant to be in these End Times of trial that we ALL face in 2022. Every single believer needs to be reaching for those still lost by sharing the Truth of Jesus Christ as soon as possible. None of us know WHO that last person to be saved is BEFORE we will ALL be transferred supernaturally to the realm of Heaven! What if that WHO is someone you know? What if…?

“What a Difference a Year Can Make in Prophecy…” Op-Ed

By Tonja Condray Klein©02-21-2022

I wrote an earlier Op-Ed about the possibility that the Rapture or ‘Calling Away” of Christian believers happening in 2021 due to certain world events happening and even timelines expressed through certain Biblical scriptures, but I also wrote that I wasn’t saying it was definitely going to happen now yet still wanted both Christians and non-Christians to be aware, consider the possibility, and search their hearts BEFORE it does. The Rapture didn’t happen, and I posted the next Op-Ed to explain that it still COULD happen at ANY time due to the remaining requisite being the last human soul to be saved by Grace through Faith in the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Christ for that person’s sins that we EACH are born having through the lineage we ALL have by Adam and Eve since the birth of Creation by God Almighty the Creator.

My own Ancestry searching has led me to not only search out the lineage lines of my parents backwards that has led me all the way back to the farthest ancestor being in 498 B.C. in the Seleucid Empire. That historical searching led me to finding out through articles and documents that reminded me that when we went from B.C. (now referred to as BCE for ‘before common era’ to remove the ‘Before Christ’) to A.D. (now referred to as CE for ‘common era’ to remove the other that was for the Latin phrase meaning ‘the year of our Lord’ that education no longer wants to acknowledge) that it wasn’t begun at zero but at one. This might not seem important to most people in this world, but when it comes to prophecies that are EXACT as to WHEN certain things would happen to prove is was from the God of Creation, so IT IS IMPORTANT!

While I also agree with the ministers who say not to place an absolute date for the Rapture happening since the Bible actually warns against listening to those in the ‘Last Days’ of the Grace Dispensation that we are presently still in during 2022, I also agree with the writings of many who point out that we should still know the TIME before that WILL happen. I came across a writer who pointed out a one year difference because of a B.C. to A.D. calendar change. If that discrepancy is the only difference then when the Jewish writer claimed that 2028 would be the year their Messiah would return if eighty years a generation marker the Jewish Torah uses; yet one year needs added to make it 2029. This Israel perspective for their ‘Messiah’ is in line for Christians who also believe in Jesus Christ, but there is more to it too now.

As a Christian who has studied eschatology for the past thirty years and also believes that the Christian Rapture happens BEFORE the 7-year Great Tribulation period prophesied in Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation begins then 2029 is the possible time for the return of Jesus Christ landing on Mount Olivet as stated in the Holy Bible but AFTER the Great Tribulation. If any Jew now believes in Jesus Christ as Messiah and Savior then that person is considered as a Messianic Jew who will ALSO be taken to safety in the Christian Rapture BEFORE the Great Tribulation begins. For generational calculation to be precise then it is possible that instead of 2021 in the article I read that precipitated my other Op-Ed, and mentioned in my other Op-Ed about 2021 not happening, then the 1 year added for B.C. to A.D could point to 2022.

While I agree that Jesus Christ returning to Israel could happen as the Israel writer stated, he didn’t mention the Rapture, so I’m going to calculate it according to the Christian belief about the Rapture timing known as ‘Pre-Trib’. 2022 plus 7 equals 2029, so that WOULD be the exact year that would line up with the generational calculation of 1948 plus 80 to equal 2028 plus 1 year missed at the B.C. to A.D. change to equal the end of the Tribulation to be 2029 and when Jesus Christ would return to stop the anti-Christ and reclaim the world and His Jerusalem to fulfill all final prophecies in Israel’s Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible related to Israel specifically when the Word is properly discerned as which Scripture is meant for Israel, which Scripture is meant for Christians, and which Scripture is meant for the entire world even now.

There is another aspect that is needed to be pointed out – people are now living longer than 80 years, and the one Scripture says the generation who saw Israel become a nation in 1948 would not pass before the coming of the Lord. My mother will turn 91 this April and SAW Israel become a nation. Anyone alive before 1948 is probably considered THAT generation. There are many people in the United States and around the world who are over 100 years old right now. The calculated possibility of 2022 could still happen, but the reality that the Christian church hasn’t seemed to have any real substantial revival to reach the last souls to be saved during the Grace Dispensation Period now as prophesied to happen BEFORE the Rapture does, but revival hasn’t yet. Christians need to REACH OUT TO ALL WE CAN NOW!

I suggest that every single person, whether Christian or not, read the “Defenders of the Realms” novels by Nathan D. Thomas on Amazon. I’m currently reading Book 3 after the first two that I have reviewed as 5-Star for both, and these novels have really uplifted my heart since the loss of my Book Artist and my Record Producer in 2021. It also has helped me to focus again on my ‘Rebirth of Eirinth” Book 3 – SEEKING THE LIGHT, and my music too. We ALL need to get focused on our given gifts to reach out to those that we are the ones to be witnesses of Christ in these Last Days to that might end sooner than we thought or be lengthened if we fail to see where we need to be to do what God Almighty has called each of us to do wherever in the world we are. Whether America, Israel, or Ukraine, WE NEED A REVIVAL!

All of the different aspects that relate to the Christian Revival, Rapture, or Return mean that we each must study to show ourselves approved as Paul told Timothy in the Christian Bible. We each need to be able to give account to WHY we believe WHAT we believe. That means that we can’t take the words of one person or group to be the end-all-be-all of prophecy or Faith. I’m not claiming to know it all about everything. I’m simply putting out some possibilities for ALL to consider while getting ready for a possible Revival we should be trying to support AND begin. The pandemic has halted ALL church activity, and we have lost so many to the point our sorrows cloud the JOY we have in our hearts for the real Salvation in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and the entire world NEEDS IT! WE MUST RESTORE OUT FIRST LOVE!

Is it possible that 2049 is the time Jesus Christ will return WITHOUT the Rapture or the Great Tribulation? The Scriptures give specific prophecies that must occur BEFORE the Rapture can take place, and worse perilous times could happen to shake the church out of its current COMA it seems to be stuck in, but one prophecy doesn’t negate another, so the generation who saw Israel become a nation will not pass away before the Lord Returns is another deciding factor too. Is it possible that the Great Tribulation won’t happen? The Great Tribulation is spoken of happening with certainty in the Jewish Torah and the Holy Bible to the point I’m still surprised there are some who claim to be Christ believers who still don’t believe it will. I understand the question of ‘when’ whether ‘Pre’ or ‘Mid’ but Post or Not at all seem impossible.

I’m a Pre-Trib believer due to the fact the Holy Spirit revives a believer’s spirit to belong to God Almighty again. That very breath of God filling Adam once he was made was that same connection he lost due to sin, but through Faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ then the Holy Spirit connects us again in a way that might be an even stronger link that doesn’t allow the ‘man of perdition’ known as the anti-Christ spoken of in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible to take power until Christians are removed – being raised from the dead and those still alive all ‘changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye’ to meet Jesus Christ in the air and be taken to safety BEFORE the Great Tribulation will begin. Some think the Rapture won’t happen until ‘Mid-Trib’ – 3-1/2 years into the 7-Year Great Tribulation – but I question that possibility.

While there could be reasons why a Mid-Trib would happen, I don’t see Scriptures that support it, especially with 21 judgements being rained down on humanity that Christian believers aren’t listed as having to go through. Not even the Covid-19 pandemic reached the percentages listed in Revelation about how many die with each separate seal, trumpet, or vial judgments as specified. There haven’t been any in history that fulfills a single one even if some in the Post or Not at all group claims it already happened. While some accounts in History might not give the full specifics for certain chaotic situations NUMBERS DON’T LIE. No historical book verifies any of these judgements happening already. The Jewish Torah was the FIRST publication to proclaim the reality that science missed for a very long time – the Earth is round!

I’m not claiming to know WHEN Jesus Christ will return in the clouds, change Christians of all nations, and join Him to get to safety. I’m simply pointing out that with the way certain countries are at this time in 2022 I’m trying to get Christians to WAKE UP! Our Redemption could be drawing nigh soon OR we might all be stuck here for a while longer until we start BEING THE REAL CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST! I don’t want to see this country become more like the ones that don’t allow the freedoms the Unites States of America allowed pre-pandemic. Things are growing dire for even being able to assemble, so we might be forced to have a revival in a different way that doesn’t include being in the same room anymore. While we have communications to do it now, what happens if the government cuts all of the power?

I don’t want to live under a dictator regime. I want my Constitutional Democratic Republic to be restored. While I know things will happen with prophecies that MUST occur, I still want to try to have our FREE COUNTRY for as long as we can until things can’t be maintained any longer. I didn’t think we would be at this point quite this soon, but when final pieces of the prophecy puzzle are placed then there will be NOTHING that can delay or stop the final event. I still see that piece as the last person to accept Jesus Christ as Savior, and then Gabriel will sound the trumpet, Jesus Christ will appear in the air, and ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS AROUND THE WORLD will be transformed with flying shoes and meet Him for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the Third Heaven to wait for time to pass until we return to reclaim Earth!

I know it’s been since the original Word of God Almighty was given to the people of Israel, and the Christian church began when Jesus Christ came to die for EVERY PERSON’S SINS whether Jew or Gentile, so some might say this is nothing but a fairy tale or religious myth, but I have news for you 02/21/2021 – JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN AND ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIS FORGIVENESS WILL BE SAVED AND RESCUED! Will there be doubters? Yes. Will there be signs that deny any of what I’m typing right now? Yes. Will it mean that any of it could blind you from finding Salvation and safety in time? Yes. That is WHY I put up the information on my Christian website to give you the help if you miss the Rapture. It won’t be easy, and you might still die, but at least READ IT: https://www.tribulationhelp.com

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