It's sometimes easy for me to get a little discouraged in the Old Testament with the constant destruction, battles, wrath, etc. This chapter reminded me that this is not at all what God wants. We've seen extreme lows, but the goal is the extreme highs described here at the beginning of the chapter. God's desire is and always has been peace for us and other peoples.

Just a random thought I had while reading this. I'm guessing God won't have any identifying marks as Yahweh. Will some people from other faiths get confused and think it might be their God, and I guess that maybe wouldn't be a problem. If everyone is in terror in caves. But then at that point God could poetically identify himself however he desired maybe just planting the knowledge in people's heads.