Inner King and Jezebel

1 Kings 16:31 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Kings 16 in context

Scripture Focus

31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings 16:31

Biblical Context

1 Kings 16:31 records a king who, like Jeroboam, takes Jezebel into his house and serves Baal, embracing idol worship over true worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the lens of the I AM, the scene in 1 Kings 16:31 is not a history about a ruler, but a map of consciousness. Jezebel is the image you invite to sit upon the throne of your mind, promising power through alliance; Baal is the ritual you perform when you give your attention to that image. The words ‘as if it had been a light thing’ reveal how easily a soul slips into idolatry when the true worship of God—awareness itself—drops from center. Remember: God is the I AM, the living awareness that creates; every god you serve in imagination becomes your circumstance. So the king’s outward act mirrors an inner decision to yield to a rival idea, to substitute the reality of I AM with a counterfeit image. Neville’s teaching invites you to reverse this by assuming a different ruling state: that only the I AM is real, and that true worship is obedience to inner truth, not external forms. By choosing holiness and separation from idol images, you re-anchor consciousness in the inner temple where the real God dwells.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the I AM as your ruling consciousness and revise the image of Jezebel/Baal as illusion. Feel the truth that true worship flows from inner awareness alone, not from external forms.

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