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About Stephen Nielsen

I'm an author, a self publisher, and a painting contractor. I live in beautiful Minnesota, USA . Welcome to my blog site.

Where Has All Our Money Gone?

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I watched a very enlightening and shocking You Tube video the other day. It was a speech by Senator Kennedy on what has been found at USAID (Agency for International Development). This agency is giving your tax dollars to certain organizations around the world. Some people are very upset that Musk is allowed to look at this information. But I think the American taxpayer has a right to know where a good chunk of their taxes are going. Would you like to know? I would. Well, here are just a few places where money is going.

  • To Afghanistan
  • To Yemen
  • To Syria
  • To support electric vehicles in Viet Nam
  • To a transgender clinic in India
  • 1.5 million to a Serbian LGTB group
  • 164 million to support radical organizations around the word, 122 million to terrorist organizations.
  • Millions to organizations in Gaza, controlled by Hamas
  • 2 Million for sex change operations in Guatemala
  • 20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
  • 4.5 million to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
  • 10 million of meals to an Alkaid terrorist group
  • 7.9 million to a journalist in Shirl Anka to teach people to avoid binary gender language
  • 1.5 million to rebuild Cuban media
  • 1.5 million to promote LGTB in Jamaca
  • 3.9 million for LGTB courses in Macedonia
  • 8.3 million dollars for equity and inclusion classes in Napal

Senator Kenedy was quick to say that some of our money may be very well spent. But a lot isn’t. I think USAID should be changed to USAIC (US Agency for International Corruption). It is bad enough that we are using our tax dollars for things we don’t agree with, but it is doubly bad that America is in the process of corrupting many other nations. It is shocking!!

I give my praise to Elon Musk for digging out this stuff. I do hope and pray that much of USAID is dismantled. I am in full agreement with firing all of the 10,000 working there. We cannot let this kind of stuff continue.

Our Worship in Heaven

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In Revelation 7 (from the sixth seal judgment) John, in his vision, saw a great multitude of people praising God.

Revelation 7:9-12

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; 10 and they cry out with a loud voice, saying,

“Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying,

“Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”

This great multitude we know are the resurrected martyrs of the fifth seal (v. 14); and they are worshipping God around His throne with the angels, and also with the elders—who are actually the resurrected church (that will be us!). What a glorious group!

John tells us that this great multitude had washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (v. 14); for this reason, they are before the throne of God (v. 15). Hence, they worship Him because they are so grateful to God and the Lamb for their salvation which He purchased for them with His own blood.

And in their worship, they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He spreads His tabernacle over them—which means that He covers them with His presence. And they will no longer hunger or thirst or suffer from the heat of the sun; for He, their Shepherd will guide them to the springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes (vv. 15-17).

This particular scene is during the Tribulation period in heaven. Of course, after the Tribulation and during the Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity we will still be worshipping Him, and for the same reasons—because He has saved us and is with us, and because He loves us and cares for us.

We will never stop serving Him or worshipping Him. In fact, our service (which includes our reigning) and our worship in some respects are the same. Our service is how we worship Him. And all that we will do in heaven forever will be for the glory of God and to bring Him worship. And that will also bring us pleasure.

None of our earthly pleasures can compare with the delight we will get in serving and worshipping Him. The Psalmist wrote, “Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth” (Ps. 73:25).