Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 7:13-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

16For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

18Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

19But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

21And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

22And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

2 Chronicles 7:13-22

Biblical Context

The passage says that if people named by God humble themselves, pray, seek God, and turn from wicked ways, God will hear, forgive, and heal their land; if not, calamity follows.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle, the outward calamities are symbols of your inner states. Heaven closes not from above but from within your own awareness when you cling to old patterns. The remedy is not temple-building in stone but the interior posture: humility loosening pride; prayer as communion with the I AM; seeking the face of God as turning attention to your true center; turning from wicked ways as releasing fear-based habits. When you make your home in the temple of your heart—the sanctified place named by God—you discover that my eyes and my heart are present there, always. Walk before me, as David did, by aligning thought, speech, and deed with divine law, and your inner throne is established. If you persist in the ego’s cravings and worship those patterns, your inner land is uprooted and the inner house becomes a proverb to yourself. Yet if you repent inwardly, heaven’s listening and healing respond within you.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare inwardly, 'I humble myself, pray, seek Your face, and turn from my old ways.' Then feel the inner temple flooded with the I AM, and allow healing to move through your inner land.