Ukraine president: Country still faces threat of 'large-scale invasion'

1. In an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday, Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion.” 

2. A senior Israeli security official said the Israeli military is readier now than it ever has been to carry out a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities should it be instructed to do so. 

3.  Two years from now, on Aug. 21, 2017, North Americans will get an opportunity to witness a total solar eclipse where the sky will darken and the stars will shine in the middle of a summer day.  

4. A senior Iranian official on Tuesday said Israel “should be annihilated,” and that the thawing relations with the West would not translate into a shift in Tehran’s position concerning the Jewish state.

5. A Coptic Christian in Egypt arrested for handing out Bibles will be put on trial after having his detention extended.

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The prophetic passage of Scripture that we are looking at today is 2 Kings 23:26-27.

Our second coming quote for today is from G. Campbell Morgan: He said, "To me the second coming is the perpetual light on the path which makes the present bearable. I never lay my head on the pillow without thinking that perhaps before the morning breaks, the final morning may have dawned. I never begin my work without thinking that He may interrupt my work and begin His own. This is now His word to all believing souls -- 'Till I come.' We are not looking for death, we are looking for Him."