Mideast, African nations build barriers to keep out jihadists

1. As they confront the rising threat of modern jihadist violence, many of the nations most at risk are retreating behind one of the oldest forms of defense.

2. The Obama administration said on Friday that it would expand training of Ukrainian security forces in their fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

3. At least three people were killed when a moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted various parts of northern Pakistan early on Saturday. 

4. Turkish jets flying from a base in the country’s southeast struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Friday night. 

5. A US official said Israel has given retired US-supplied Cobra combat helicopters to Jordan to help the Hashemite kingdom fend off insurgent threats on the Syrian and Iraqi borders.

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The prophetic passage of Scripture that we are looking at today is 1 Kings 17:15-16 which reads: "And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah."

Our second coming quote for today is from George Eldon Ladd. He said: "Jesus is now the Lord; He is enthroned at the right hand of God; He is reigning in His kingdom. But this is a Lordship and a kingly reign which is known only to believers. It must be confessed by faith. His Second Coming will mean nothing less than the Lordship which is His now will be visible to all the world. When we pray, ‘Thy kingdom come,’ this is what we are praying for: the effectual and universal rule of Christ in all the world, not only over believers."