Neville Goddard on Acts 7:20-29 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 7 in context

Scripture Focus

20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

28Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

Acts 7:20-29

Biblical Context

Moses is born, nurtured in Pharaoh’s house, and educated in Egyptian wisdom; at forty he feels the impulse to visit his brethren and defend them. When his act is not understood, he flees to the desert.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you this Moses is the living state of consciousness that awakens to deliverance. You are not looking at a distant hero; you are the I AM, the awareness that rises as the royal conditioning of Pharaoh’s house and the worldly wisdom of Egypt yield to a higher calling. The forty years you spend in Midian are the interior apprenticeship, a time when the mind consolidates the vision of liberation. When Moses defends the oppressed and would set them at one, the brethren fail to recognize that God is in his hand. The response of the crowd who asked who made thee a ruler and a judge is your own doubt at work, questioning the authenticity of your inner vision. The flight to the desert is the withdrawal of surface activity so the inner law can rearrange your inner states. The two sons are new possibilities born of that inner preparation. The deliverance you seek is the realization that the I AM has already freed your life; the outer signs follow as the inner state becomes your lived experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit in quiet awareness and assume the state I AM delivering my people now. Feel the liberation as already accomplished and hold that feeling for several minutes daily.