U.S. considers pulling troops from Israel-Egypt peacekeeping mission

1. The Obama administration is quietly reviewing the future of America’s three-decade deployment to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, fearful the lightly equipped peacekeepers could be targets of escalating Islamic State-inspired violence. 

2. Nigeria’s army said it attacked Boko Haram militants fleeing from the northeastern Sambisa Forest late Tuesday after an air force bombardment. 

3. Fighting resumed in parts of South Sudan between government troops and rebel forces, two days after the president declined to sign a peace deal.

4. A group of at least eight Iranian Christians were beaten and arrested last Friday in the city of Karaj while gathering for a worship ceremony in a house church.

5. Iran and Russia have reached an agreement to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missile systems. 

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The prophetic passage of Scripture that we are looking at today is 2 Kings 13:18-19.
 
Our second coming quote for today is from George Whitefield. He said: "I am daily waiting for the coming of the Son of God."