Inner Temple Reclaimed
2 Chronicles 33:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Chronicles 33 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
2 Chronicles 33:4-5 records Manasseh’s profanation: altars built in the LORD’s house and altars for the host of heaven in the two courts.
Neville's Inner Vision
From a Neville Goddard perspective, the temple is your consciousness. Manasseh’s act of erecting altars inside the LORD’s house and for the host of heaven mirrors how a mind fills sacred space with counterfeit powers—fear, desire for control, habit, and vanity. The host of heaven represents the multitude of thoughts clamoring for authority within your awareness, and the two courts symbolize the inner conviction and outward rituals that contend for attention. When you mistake the plurality of thoughts for reality, you build altars in the sanctuary where the I AM should reign. Yet the verse speaks of a timeless truth: the name of God remains in Jerusalem forever—your true identity as the observer and the indwelling presence. The remedy is not withdrawal from worship but the purification of worship: reclaim it as remembrance of the I AM within, until all idols fall before the single altar of awareness. In that shift, you feel the presence of God reoccupying the inner temple, unhindered and sovereign.
Practice This Now
Assume the I AM is the sole ruler of your temple. Revise every idol as a thought, and feel the presence of the I AM filling the inner sanctuary.
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