Neville Goddard on Acts 7:30-36 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 7 in context

Scripture Focus

30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,

32Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

33Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

34I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

35This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 7:30-36

Biblical Context

Moses encounters a divine sign in the wilderness—a bush aflame with God's presence—announcing a mission to free the people from bondage. The scene invites a shift of consciousness, moving from fear to holy ground, as God commissions him to go.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, in this passage the desert becomes the theater of your mind and the bush a fiery image of imagination alive in you. The voice 'I am the God of thy fathers' proclaims that your current states—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—are not dead histories but living patterns within awareness. Moses trembles, yet the invitation comes: step closer to the flame and hear that the place you stand is holy ground. Put off thy shoes, for you tread on sacred thought—your consciousness awakened to the truth that is always now. 'I have seen,' 'I have heard,' and 'I am come down to deliver' translate to your inner declaration: I acknowledge your suffering in this moment and I bring the power to liberate it. The sending into Egypt is the decision to project this inner realization into outer life; the angel in the bush is your higher self guiding your image into action. The exodus—signs, wonders, and forty years—becomes your ongoing proof that imagination is the power that shapes reality when you dwell as the I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In stillness, imagine you are Moses hearing the I AM decree. Feel the interior release as if deliverance has already occurred, and revise one limitation into possibility in the present.