Kurdish forces score gains against ISIS in Iraq (Second Coming Watch #562)

1. Kurdish forces in northern Iraq pressed forward with their largest offensive to date against the Islamic State group, moving to secure territory reclaimed from ISIS fighters in a two-day offensive and to capitalize on news of several ISIS leaders' deaths. 

2. President Barack Obama said the U.S. will respond to North Korea's cyber-assault on Sony Pictures "in a place and time and manner that we choose." 

3. Sternly warning the West that it cannot defang the metaphorical Russian bear, a confident-looking President Vladimir Putin promised on Thursday to shore up the plummeting ruble and revive the economy within two years. While he issued a litany of sharp rebukes against the West, Putin struck a conciliatory note on Ukraine, saying that the rebellious east should remain part of the country, backing a quick exchange of war prisoners and praising his Ukrainian counterpart.

4. Israeli warplanes have bombed a site in Gaza, in the first such action since the declaration of a truce in August.

5. International Christian Concern's Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians, saying, "Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they've sworn to uphold, are violating Christians' rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia." 

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The prophetic passage of Scripture we are looking at today is Exodus 12:15 which reads: "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel."

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