Neville Goddard on 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

Biblical Context

The passage says the day of the Lord comes suddenly, like a thief in the night. When people cry peace and safety in outward things, sudden destruction follows, exposing the limit of relying on appearances.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the day of the Lord not as a distant event scattered across the heavens, but as the instant your inner awareness fully awakens to itself. The thief in the night is the moment you forget your I AM and drift into believing you are defined by appearances rather than by consciousness. When you cry 'peace and safety' in the outer world—when you lean on circumstances, opinions, or conditions—you are sheltering your life in a temporary illusion that cannot endure the test of inner truth. True security does not come from changing events but from the state you inhabit in consciousness. The day arrives the moment you return to your own being and assume that the desired state is already yours. By imagining the end from the beginning and feeling it as present, you birth a new self and loosen the old one; the external scenes then align with this inner state because you no longer demand life from what you see, but from what you hold as I AM. The practice is to guard your inner world, revise until the feeling of the wish fulfilled remains steady, and dwell there until it becomes your lived reality.