Neville Goddard on Acts 7:44-46 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 7 in context

Scripture Focus

44Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Acts 7:44-46

Biblical Context

Acts 7:44-46 speaks of the tabernacle as a witness in the wilderness, made after a pattern, and David’s longing to build a dwelling for God.

Neville's Inner Vision

To read Acts 7:44-46 in Neville's tone is to see the tabernacle as an inner temple the I AM builds within consciousness. The wilderness of the old mind is the restless state that wanders until a clear pattern emerges in imagination. The fashion Moses saw becomes the precise image you consent to in awareness, a blueprint by which your life might organize itself around presence. When David found favour and longed to build a house for the God of Jacob, he is naming the moment your soul discovers a craving for a fixed dwelling where truth can reign. The tabernacle is not a building but an inner arrangement of attention, a state of mind that hosts the Presence. The Gentiles, in Neville's sense, are the outward conditions that your inner ruler moves through and beyond. Grace comes as you revise your sense of self to align with the end you desire: the Presence within. So dwell there now, imagine the temple completed in your heart, and feel the I AM at home, ruling your life from the sacred center.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat, 'I am the tabernacle of God within me now.' Breathe into the felt Presence at the center of consciousness until it rests as your lived reality.