The Inner Altar of Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

In this story, the city and the threshing floor become your inner ground of being, and Gad’s message is the awakening idea that calls you to a new state. The plague within you is a momentum—an old belief and fear—that rushes toward convergence with consequence. When you hear Gad say, 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD,' imagine you hearing the still, quiet I AM within, choosing a place in your own mental field where you will attend to longing and mercy. Araunah’s bowing is your outer self recognizing the authority of the inner king; the purchase of the ground is you claiming sovereignty over your conditions, not by force but by worship. By building the altar—feeling the reality of a merciful, uncondemned self—you stay the plague. The event is not historical but a symbolic drama of your inward state; the altar is your consciousness lifted by intention. When you assume the state of the I AM worshiping, the plague dissolves into mercy.