Neville Goddard on Acts 7:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 7 in context

Scripture Focus

5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

6And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

Acts 7:5-7

Biblical Context

God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the land, though he had no child yet. He said they would live in a foreign land, be afflicted and enslaved for 400 years, then be judged by God and eventually return to serve Him in that land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Abraham's story is a map of consciousness. The land promised is the feeling of already having what you seek; the seed is the inner idea you plant in I AM, not an external timetable. The sojourn and bondage are inner conditions—doubt, delay, fear—that refine your sense of self until it is ready to serve the divine. The 400 years symbolize a long apprenticeship in inner faith, during which the mind yields to the rhythm of end-driven imagination. When God promises judgment on the bondage nation, He speaks of transforming your belief so that the old reality dissolves, paving a return to serve Him in the very place of your awareness. Deliverance comes not by outward change alone but by inward revision: a steadfast assumption that the end is already real. You and your promised land are one I AM reality, awaiting your recognition.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet and assume you already possess the land you seek; feel the feel of freedom and belonging as if it is present now. Then revise any sense of lack by affirming, 'I am now in possession of all good; I am the land and the heir.'