Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 17:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 17 in context

Scripture Focus

21For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.

22For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

23Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

2 Kings 17:21-23

Biblical Context

Israel is torn from the house of David, and Jeroboam becomes king, driving the people into a great sin. They persist in those sins until the Lord removes them from their land.

Neville's Inner Vision

This is a map of inner life. Israel represents a state of consciousness, Jeroboam’s rebellion is a belief that God is distant, and their great sin is clinging to a split allegiance between outer signs of kingship and the inner Kingship I AM. The people turn away from the LORD, which mirrors turning away from the awareness that I AM. The repeated sins are the loops of thought that refuse to rest in the one temple within. The LORD removing them signifies the dissolution of the belief in division—the exile of the outer man from the inner sanctuary. The prophets’ words are inner alarms that awaken the mind to its own dream. Thus exile is not punishment but a boundary drawn by imagination, revealing that what seems external is born from an inner state. Return to the inner king, insist on I AM presence, and watch the outer kingdom shift in response.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that you are the I AM reigning in your inner temple. Revise Jeroboam as a belief in separation and rest in the unity of God until the sense of exile dissolves.