Inner Covenant Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a parable of your inner life. Pekah is not a neighbor’s army but the surge of fear, anger, and pride that rushes through a mind when it abandons the I AM within. The 120,000 slain in a single day symbolize the many sturdy beliefs and habits you once defended as 'you'—your identities, preferences, and grievances—that are laid low when you surrender the old covenant to the true covenant of awareness. The reason given—'because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers'—points to a state of consciousness: when you forget the indwelling I AM, you mistake the outer world for reality, and inner obedience to the higher self is forgotten, producing chaos. The verse thus teaches that judgment and accountability begin in consciousness; the outward slaughter corresponds to self-doubt, misalignment, and the collapse of old separations. Yet you are not commanded to despair, but to return to the I AM, the unseen governor of your life. By choosing to imagine and feel as if the Lord is within you, you restore the inner covenant and set your inner battlefield to peace.