Neville Goddard on 2 Peter 3:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Peter 3 in context

Scripture Focus

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 3:9-10

Biblical Context

2 Peter 3:9-10 presents God as patient, wanting all to repent, and warns that a swift, inner change will come when the time arrives. It contrasts long-suffering with impending judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, the Lord is not an external deadline but the I AM that dwells as your own consciousness. Patience is not passive waiting but a steady state of awareness you maintain while your inner sight wakes to its promised reality. When the verse says it is not willing that any perish, it is saying your being longs to awaken every facet of itself, if you will align with that inner intention. The "day of the Lord" arriving like a thief in the night is the moment your old self-structure collapses as you refuse to accept less than the truth of your divine nature; it arrives as a silent, inner rearrangement of beliefs, not a meteor falling from the sky. The heavens passing away and the elements melting refer to the dissolution of habitual thoughts and attachments you once defended as 'real.' The earth and its works burned up are the stories about yourself you identify with that no longer serve the new state you are claiming. Mercy here means your consciousness is already free; repentance is simply turning your attention back to the I AM and living from that victorious center.

Practice This Now

Assume right now that you are already in the state of repentance and awakening. Feel it-real: invite the inner shift as a present fact, and imagine the old world dissolving as you stand in the reality of the inner kingdom.