Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 1:26-31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 1 in context

Scripture Focus

26Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

29Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

30The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

31And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Deuteronomy 1:26-31

Biblical Context

Israelites rebel and murmur against God's command to enter the land, doubting His care; Moses reassures them that God goes before them to fight, recalling His deliverance in Egypt and in the wilderness. It invites inner trust that fear can be dissolved by conscious awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the verses describe a state of consciousness, not a distant event. Not going up is a refusal to move in imagination; the murmuring is the mind's habit of fear. The Amorites, Anakims, and the walled cities are the inhabitants of doubt inside your own heart. God does not hate you; the I AM within you is the exact presence that goes before you, shaping the very road you enter. The command to go up is the command to act from the end of your dream, to inner-ride the mental picture of the goal and feel its reality. When you hear 'Dread not,' you are being told to accept the feeling that you already possess the thing sought. The Lord your God that goeth before you is your own awareness that creates; He fights for you as you dare to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. In the wilderness, you are guided, protected, and borne like a son; the dry places are only states of lack that dissolve when I, the I AM, am realized within. So the path is not fear-driven but faith-grounded, because God’s presence is already your present.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you are already stepping into the land you seek; feel the ground under your feet, know that God’s presence goes before you, and revise any voice of doubt to, 'I am supported by the I AM.' Then dwell in that feeling until it feels real.