Neville Goddard on 2 Peter 3:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Peter 3 in context

Scripture Focus

8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

2 Peter 3:8-10

Biblical Context

2 Peter 3:8–10 says God's timing is measured by inner awareness, not human clocks, and that patience longs to awaken all to repentance. It warns that the 'day of the Lord' arrives suddenly as an inner awakening that transforms all you deem real.

Neville's Inner Vision

Time, to the I AM, is not ticking on a clock but moving within consciousness. When Peter says one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, he points to the infinite span of imagination—where any moment can hold all time. The Lord is not slack concerning the promise; that 'longsuffering' is the steady patience of the I AM toward its own awakening. It is not about waiting for others in the external world, but about your own turning toward a state that allows every potential to awaken. To repent, in this sense, is to reorient your inner scene toward wholeness, to choose a new identification with the self that already is complete. The day of the Lord, coming as a thief in the night, is the inner moment when your old beliefs burn away and your mental weather shifts. The heavens and the elements dissolving mirror the collapse of limiting narratives—fear, lack, separation—replaced by the felt reality of unity and power. Rest in the awareness that you are the Lord’s Image, and revise with feeling until this inner vision takes root as reality.

Practice This Now

Practice now: close your eyes and assume the I AM as present here and now; revise a limitation by declaring, 'Time is my inner awareness, and the Day of the Lord is here now,' and feel that shift as already true. Repeat until the sense of timeless presence saturates your being.