Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 8:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 8 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

3And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

2 Kings 8:1-3

Biblical Context

Elisha tells the widow to arise and go, for a famine is coming; she obeys and spends seven years in the land of the Philistines, returning later to claim her house and land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, see the scene as a revelation of your inner state. The famine is a calling of limitation in consciousness, not a decree upon your essence. When the prophet says, Arise and go, he speaks your I AM awakening to shift location in mind—leaving the old scene of lack and fear and moving into a new neighborhood of awareness, even if the outer signs remain quiet for seven years. The Philistines' land is the unfamiliar yet fertile ground of imagination where you dwell while your sense of self is reorganized by divine instruction. The seven-year sojourn is the disciplined quiet of faith, a period in which you do not resist the inner command but let it work unseen, until the inner disposition is formed to receive the restoration you will claim at its end. The king’s hearing of your petition is the universal mind recognizing the truth that your true house and land belong to you by law.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and, in a moment of quiet, assume the feeling of the return. State I am returned to my rightful dwelling now, and see yourself stepping back into your property with gratitude as if it were already accomplished.