Neville Goddard on Acts 13:46-47 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 13 in context

Scripture Focus

46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

47For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Acts 13:46-47

Biblical Context

Paul and Barnabas explain that the word was offered first to the Jews. Seeing their rejection, they turn to the Gentiles to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the scene of Acts, the ‘you’ who rejects the word is only a state of consciousness. When that state judges itself unworthy of everlasting life, you are simply sliding into a restive fixation; the act of turning to the Gentiles is an inner turning. It is not geography but a shift of attention—a new assumption. The Lord's command, 'I have set thee to be a light,' is your inner I AM assigned to illuminate the entire earth of your mind. Salvation is not future proof but present awareness so thoroughly felt that it becomes what you live as now. When you revise the thought that you are bounded to one tribe of beliefs, you release preference and invite universal fulfillment. So practice by imagining you are the light of the world within and feel that this light has always been there, awaiting your recognition. Your world becomes the ends of the earth—because your awareness stretches to include all.