The final part of the book begins with chapter 38, not chapter 40, for the battle of God of the land of Magog against the Lord is the necessary prelude to the construction of a new temple-city, its regulatilons, and the positioning of the holy people around it. Chapters 38 and 39 presume that Israel has returned from exile and dwells peacefully on its own land (38,12). In a grand finale, God, the divine warrior, musters the armies of the world and lures them into a massive battle that results in their annihilation and his glory. Such a divine initiative was, according to 38,17, predicted in such earlier prophetic passages as Isaiah 29,7; Micah 8,11-13; Jeremiah 1,14, Isaiah 14,24-27 predicted that the great empire Assyria would be destroyed in the midst of the holy land.
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