Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 9:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

6But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

1 Kings 9:6-9

Biblical Context

1 Kings 9:6-9 shows that turning away from God and chasing other gods leads to exile of the land and the temple being cast out, with Israel becoming a proverb. The text says that outward ruin follows an inner shift away from the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner economy, the people are states of consciousness and the temple stands for the unbroken recognition of I AM within you. When you turn from following the I AM and cling to fear, lack, or external images—your ‘other gods’—you withdraw attention from the living Presence and worship separation. The result is inner exile: your spiritual land feels barren, the temple you’ve built for your life is cast from sight, and your life appears as a proverb to those who pass by, a public sign of misalignment with your true Self. Yet this is not a sentence but a natural response of consciousness to belief. The moment you realize the I AM is the only reality, you can revise and restore. Return your devotion to the one Presence and the temple awakens; the land returns to abundance as you inhabit a new state of awareness. Your life then echoes harmony again, because you now move from belief to realization as the creator of it all.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet and claim the I AM as your sole governor; silently state, I AM God in this temple of my life, and feel the temple restored as your belief aligns with that eternal state.