Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 8:20-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 8 in context

Scripture Focus

20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

21So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

22Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

23And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 8:20-23

Biblical Context

Edom revolts from under Judah, and Joram leads a nighttime attack on the Edomites. The revolts persist, and Libnah also revolts, with the rest of Joram's acts recorded in the Chronicles.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard perspective, Edom's revolt is a symbol of the mind resisting the awareness that it is one with the divine. The hand of Judah is the aligned consciousness, and Joram's night march represents a deliberate maneuver of awareness through imagination to assert sovereign power. Edom's continuing rebellion to this day mirrors fixed beliefs in separation that linger until they are willingly revised. Libnah's revolt at the same time signals that adjacent false identifications reveal themselves as you revise the inner scene. The Chronicles hearken not to history but to your inner records, which you can rewrite by claiming your true state. The message of Providence is that your inner kingdom is guided, and when you affirm your kingship and speak from the I AM, the old pictures bow and surrender. Your practical task is to inhabit the feeling of supreme I AM and to revise every impulse of revolt with the decree of unity.