The Second Visitation Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville reader, 1 Kings 9:2 is not a geographical rerun but a revival of inner sight. The LORD appearing again is the reassertion that God is the I AM within Solomon, the unwavering awareness that animates every act. The first visitation at Gibeon woke him to a larger truth; this second visitation confirms that the divine is not a distant event but the ongoing atmosphere of his consciousness. The 'second time' signals the habitual reclaiming of attention—the practice of turning to the one Presence until it feels tangible, until the sense of separation dissolves in the felt reality of unity. Consequently, the themes you named—Presence, Covenant, Holiness, Grace—are not external favors but inner states: loyalty of attention to the I AM, separation from lesser thoughts, grace as the steady assurance that imagination molds experience. When Solomon is visited again, it is because his life is already governed by a divine law inside him: that I AM is active here and now, and through imagination he writes the covenant into reality.