Neville Goddard on Daniel 3:19-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 3 in context

Scripture Focus

19Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

20And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3:19-20

Biblical Context

Nebuchadnezzar's fury heats the furnace and binds Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to cast them in. The fire tests whom you worship—the external power of ego or the inner I AM in you.

Neville's Inner Vision

Daniel 3 invites you to see the furnace as the mind’s arena where ego's decree and fear clash with the truth of your I AM. Nebuchadnezzar represents the outer voice—yes, the ego—that demands obedience from without; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are three steadfast states of consciousness that refuse the idol of power or approval. The heat, intensified sevenfold, is not punishment but the mind’s pressure to collapse your sense of security. Yet the I AM within remains untouched; when you identify with what you truly are—the aware observer—you discover the fire is but air circulating through your inner room. In this light, the law of imagination becomes operative: you may revise the scene by declaring, inwardly, that you pass through the furnace unburned and that a divine presence accompanies you. The external trial is thus a mirror of your inward decision to worship truth rather than fear, to trust the unseen, to inhabit faith as your permanent state. If you fear you are worshipping fear; if you choose faith you worship the eternal. Walk out not by escaping danger but by remaining steady in the I AM, transformed though the heat remains.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and picture yourself in the furnace as the calm observer. Quietly declare, I AM with you; revise the scene so you pass through unharmed, feeling the heat transmute into purification.