Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 2:14-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 2 in context

Scripture Focus

14And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

Deuteronomy 2:14-15

Biblical Context

The passage describes 38 years in the wilderness, during which the generation of warriors perished as the Lord swore, illustrating a period of divine judgment and transition.

Neville's Inner Vision

That space from Kadeshbarnea to the brook Zered is not time but a state of consciousness. The 'generation of the men of war' are your old habitual thoughts—fearful, combative, disputing with reality. The hand of the Lord against them is the divine, impersonal power of your I AM placing a deadline on your old identity so that it may die off in the fires of imagination. Thirty-eight years becomes the length of your attachment to lack when you refuse a new assumption. When you persist in assuming the end you desire, the inner army collapses, the old story dissolves, and a new order of awareness arises as if it were sworn already. This 'consumption' is not punishment but purification, clearing the way for a land flowing with milk and honey within you. The wilderness is the necessary curriculum that makes space for the promised state to be understood as present now. Your only task is to accept that the end is already true in consciousness, and to dwell in that awareness until it becomes outer fact. The moment you feel the truth as yours, the hand against you loosens and your path appears.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, revise the story, and assume the end: you have entered your promised land in consciousness. Feel the land as real now, and rest in the I AM until it becomes your fact.