Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 9:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 9 in context

Scripture Focus

7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 9:7-8

Biblical Context

Deuteronomy 9:7-8 recounts Israel’s ongoing rebellion from Egypt to Horeb and the resulting anger of the Lord. It suggests that outward history mirrors the inner dispositions of a people under covenant.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville Goddard’s lens, the wilderness and Horeb are inner states, not distant places. The rebellious acts described are not external deeds alone but movements of your own consciousness drifting from the I AM into fear. To provoke the Lord to wrath is to allow thoughts of separation and danger to gain power in your mind, until a fiery sense of consequences appears as if fate. The I AM stands as your unchanging awareness; when you identify with the past as a chain of misfortunes, you forget that you are the very covenant within which God dwells. Return to the inner covenant by assuming a new state: you are already blessed, protected, and whole, and nothing external can overturn that truth. The remembering and forgetting command asks you to recall the truth while dropping the false image of separation; by keeping faith with the I AM you disarm the revolt of old habit and allow the divine to renew your inner desert with a new order of peace.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat, 'I am the I AM, faithful and unprovoked by fear.' Then revise by feeling the present inner covenant as real—as if the wilderness has become your quiet place of knowing.