Daniel's Inner Seventy-Year Return
Daniel 9:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Daniel 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Daniel, in the first year of his reign, reads the prophecies and counts the years until Jerusalem's desolation ends. He treats the seventy years as a rhythm of inner conviction rather than a mere calendar.
Neville's Inner Vision
Daniel is not a relic of history but a mirror for your inner life. In the first year of his reign, he turns to the inner books of memory and imagination, counting the numbers the Lord spoke to Jeremiah. The seventy years symbolize a long season of inner desolation, a phase through which your soul is being formed. When he understands that the Lord would accomplish these years in the desolations of Jerusalem, he is really learning to trust the cadence by which the I AM moves within. The word of the LORD to Jeremiah becomes your own inner guidance: a directive from consciousness that a certain state of wholeness is already prepared. You do not bring restoration by forcing externals; you awaken to the truth that time bends to the state you occupy. The seventy-year clock yields to your willingness to assume the end from within, to revise every sense of lack, and to dwell in the certainty that inner Jerusalem has been restored. In that shift, events begin to align with your new consciousness.
Practice This Now
Assume the end now: I AM restored and in the peace of Jerusalem. Feel this as real in your chest and hold a brief scene of the gates opening to light for a few breaths.
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