Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 4:40 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 4 in context

Scripture Focus

40So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

2 Kings 4:40

Biblical Context

A pot of pottage is poisoned, and the diners cry out in fear. They cannot eat until the man of God provides a purifying remedy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Death in the pot is not a future fate but a current belief taking hold in the mind. The pot represents your all-aware consciousness into which you pour your experiences; when you hear there is death there, you are simply interpreting a scene as mortal. In Neville's terms, the cry is a state of consciousness asserting lack, and the cure—like Elisha's act of adding meal—signal the intervention of a higher idea. The meal stands for truth that nourishes, a substance you can 'pour' into your thinking until it becomes life rather than poison. The moment you acknowledge that your I AM presence is the only reality, you reverse the signal: fear is swallowed by the realization that you are always fed by an infinite supply. The pot is redeemed by the imaginative act of declaring, I AM the Life in me, and thus life flows through the scene. The physical circumstance cannot contradict the fact of your consciousness; only your belief about it can. By repeatedly turning your attention to the living I AM, you continuously transform the deadly appearance into a feast of wholeness.