By Tonja Condray Klein©08/20/2021

I’m not a doctored historian, degreed theologian, or someone who has all of the answers to what every single prophecy means to Christians in America and around the world. I’m sitting in the middle of our bed and watching the news like most people my age or older are right now, and America pulling out of our country’s foreign embassy as all Afghan interpreters are left behind is making me shake my head and search my heart for the inner peace Jesus gives. I keep reminding myself that Rosh Hashanah is nearing, and some believers think it will be when Jesus Christ returns to hover in the sky as He evacuates ALL of His believers before the Great Tribulation period begins. The Eschatological prophecies can be seen in this latest event that indicates the governments in Revelation are close to being set up.

Have Christian preachers taught this for as long as I’ve been alive? Yes. Have I studied enough of the Holy Bible for myself to compare what is needed for final parts of any prophecy to happen so I would know when it wasn’t time yet? Yes. Am I concerned because we are nearing Rosh Hashanah since this seems to be coming together a little too quickly? Yes. Will I keep praying to be ready in case Jesus Christ DOES show up in the air to take His people out? YES! So many prophecies have seemed to be fulfilled in the last few years. I’ve been trying to write things to get Saved and Unsaved to understand what seems to be happening. I don’t know specifics to lay out as a blueprint for the Rapture, but reading the Bible prophecies, comparing them to the news, and praying for what I should or shouldn’t say IS what I’m doing.

I have five more books for my Fantasy novel series to write and publish. I have several songs to put to music so I can record them and release my first LP. I’m trying to write these Op-Eds to get through to those who happen to go to my different social media sites so they can maybe learn the TRUTH, find Salvation in JESUS CHRIST, and realize that all of the idiocy of this world isn’t worth losing your SOUL! I’ve been looking for the evidence of the Last Great Revival that I thought Christians would be having years ago, but then the pandemic happened. We have the online options to reach souls now, and that might be how that revival happens, but I’m not seeing any signs that it is happening yet. Rosh Hashanah or not, the LAST soul to find Salvation through Faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, Lord, and God will launch the Rapture.

The Christian Rapture actually is an EVACUATION. If you’ve been taught in church that we’re all just going to get better or go to a new level of spirituality so Jesus will come back to be King and we’ll be happy… then you haven’t read the whole CHRISTIAN BIBLE. The Great Tribulation is a REALITY for the world’s future at some point. If things keep lining up like they have been, it might be sooner rather than later in my lifetime. I don’t want to scare people like a group did back in the 1990’s about what would happen in 2000 because the computers would all shut down. Or in 1985 that had people selling everything in preparation of leaving. I ask for every person to examine your heart to see if you do belong to Jesus Christ. I’m not perfect, but when I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior, my heart belonged to Him!

Studying the Old Testament prophecy books like Ezekiel and the New Testament books like Revelation has led me to the understanding that fits with what the Assembly of God and Evangelical churches believe when it comes to the signs Christians are supposed to look for and the timing of certain prophecies that will lead to more being fulfilled even sooner than had ever previously thought was possible. Technology has come along to actually make some of the verses seem more plausible since so many weird and scary things are possible to create. History and Archaeology also have an additional level that explains what happened in the Old Testament that might happen AGAIN to explain more verses. If more theologians took actual giants as reality then maybe they would be closer to seeing the other signs happening.

If you can’t tell by many or even most of my Op-Eds – I’M ANGRY. The fact that I wrecked our car after my 30 years of no tickets or wrecks makes me be upset. The continued pandemic restrictions not supported by science make me be frustrated. The inability to decide what I need to focus on first with what I believe the Lord still wants me to do for as long as we’re still here makes me be aggravated. That’s regular life. I’M ANGRY AT THE CHURCH. Over the last 39 years I’ve been in churches, listened online, or watched through media, but I’m now asking that with all that’s happened why hasn’t the Last Great Revival happened? For one, they refuse to let the Holy Spirit into their services to see lives be changed. Not all churches allow that, but why are so many of the so-called ‘Full Gospel’ churches still being MIA?

I know churches have been closed. I know attendance had fallen even before the pandemic. I know many have been so discouraged by all that has been going on in our country and the world for a decade or more. All of those things and more combine to keep us from being as ‘spiritual’ as we need to be to even open up to the Holy Spirit or His Gifts. While I have a problem with churches that demand pantyhose for women since I speak in other tongues wearing blue jeans, I still own dresses, skirt-suits, short heels, and the dratted pantyhose, so it’s not that I can’t dress that way. I’m against being forced to comply with anyone’s man-made rule. If I sing at a church then I try to wear the clothes that church would deem appropriate since a minister of any gift is to be everything to everyone as Apostle Paul stated.

I’m not sure how this Afghanistan situation is going to affect us in the short term. I know that particular area is always included in Christian prophecy, especially End-Times related ones, but presently I’m seeing a possibility for the prophecy piece to be placed that might make things speed up more. If that happens then the True Church of Jesus Christ needs to be working even harder to get the Gospel to as many people as possible in America and around the world. I’m not sure what is causing the interference unless demonic powers are putting oppression over many Christians that they can’t break free. I’ve had my moments of sadness many times recently, so I know how that can keep people from even wanting to reach out to someone else in the midst of it, but if Jesus Christ did it on the Cross for us then we must try!

Denominations is another word for divisions, but it used to be only concerning concepts of our Faith, NOT a complete disconnect from each other since we were ALL fellow believers in Jesus Christ as Savior, and only had few differences in preferences and practices; NOW? It seems our main cohesion through Christ is being eroded by all the differences taking over the similarities. JESUS should be our focus! While I believe in allowing the Holy Spirit Gifts during services, the preaching of the Gospel with Jesus Christ dying for our sins is the ONLY way for Salvation. The Spiritual Gifts later is awesome, and sometimes the Lord fills a person with the Gifts at the same time, but the most important thing to be known is JESUS DIED FOR YOU! Regardless of any difference, Jesus died FOR YOU!

I was born in America. I have never been attacked, molested, shot, or otherwise terrorized for being a Christian. If I can’t get excited over my sins being washed away by the Blood of Jesus Christ in my place, then there’s NOTHING else that could! Not going to Hell is the best side-effect of accepting Jesus Christ as Savior, but KNOWING Him in a personal way through prayer, reading the Christian Holy Bible, singing songs of Faith with others who feel the same way in service to share each other’s problems while still be uplifted since better is coming are ways for that to happen. It’s not a way to be brainwashed. It’s not group hallucination. When two or more are in His presence then HE is with them. This is the ‘in one accord’ in the New Testament that is needed for the Holy Spirit to even move. We NEED One-Accordance!

Christians and other groups in Afghanistan are at risk this day 08/20/2021. As a Christian I’m really sick at heart with what these people are facing. It is also why I posted about needing to be excited that I have NEVER faced terrors in America. With how our country is being shredded, though, I don’t know how much longer that will be true. I’ll keep on posting, singing, writing, and doing whatever else I need to do for as long as I’m free, but we don’t even know if THAT will be taken at any time with how things are still so controlled due to the pandemic. If ever Christians in America tried praying for not only themselves but those in Afghanistan and around the world then it would be NOW. There are a few countries where Christianity is deemed as an offense punishable by death in 2021. PRAY like never before!

Evening of September 6, 2021 until evening of September 8, 2021 is Rosh Hashanah this year. I’ve noted before that some believe that ‘No man knows the day or the hour’ in the New Testament is a colloquialism used by Jesus Christ that refers to His return in the air to take away His believers as told to the Apostles. I don’t know and don’t want to only ‘behave’ more during that time each year either. As followers of Christ, we need to try to be His Body on Earth until He comes to evacuate us to safety before the Great Tribulation. God the Father’s focus will go to Israel for their prophecies promised to be finally done after the True Church is taken out and then when we return for the Battle of Armageddon. I believe in the ‘Pre-Tribulation’ view, so I’m a Pre-Tribber. Mid-Trib might be possible, but Post or No Trib isn’t.

If you don’t agree with me does that mean if you know Jesus Christ as your Savior that I don’t consider you a brother or sister in Christ over that alone? No! We can decide to not agree on many points of our Faith and still be like-minded in all other things. I love all kinds of music from Southern Gospel to Christian Rock or Contemporary. Others might not allow many or any of the instruments in these genres, but that doesn’t change that Jesus Christ is the glue to bind us ALL together at this time in this changing atmosphere and ties. The world NEEDS JESUS! Can we put aside differences and focus on what we have in common to see souls saved while we can? Is the pettiness of some in church against others so much that it is what keeps Revival outside of their doors? Examine yourselves and SHARE JESUS!