Neville Goddard on Acts 7:37-43 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 7 in context

Scripture Focus

37This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

43Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Acts 7:37-43

Biblical Context

Acts 7:37-43 recounts Moses foretelling a future prophet and the people’s rejection of him. They turn to idols in the wilderness, worship external forms, and, as a result, face judgment and exile.

Neville's Inner Vision

All these scenes are not elsewhere in time; they unfold within your own consciousness as the drama of belief. Moses represents the higher idea that God as I AM raises within you a prophet of truth - the inner understanding you must hear. The wilderness is your fluctuating state of mind, wandering between awareness and lack, while the calf and the starry host are your miscreated images - idols born of fear and the need for control. When the people would not obey the living voice, they clung to familiar forms and turned back into 'Egypt,' meaning a return to limitation and memory of separation. God's response - giving them up to worship the host of heaven - describes what happens when you abandon the present I AM for external symbols. The lively oracles, given to you within, are the direct commands of consciousness when you listen. To awaken is to hear the inner prophet, revise the belief in separation, and feel the truth as real now. Then you journey beyond Babylon, in the sense of waking to unity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the consciousness of the inner Moses—the I AM hearing the living oracle. Revise any picture of separation by affirming, 'I am the prophet I have heard,' and feel that the idol dissolves into awareness.