Neville Goddard on Exodus 12:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 12 in context

Scripture Focus

12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:12-13

Biblical Context

God declares judgment on Egypt and its gods. Those who mark their houses with the blood receive protection from the plague.

Neville's Inner Vision

That night in the text is a night of consciousness. Egypt represents a mind asleep to its true identity, a land of incomplete recognition. The firstborn—outward results born of fixed belief—fall when the inner light of I AM moves through the scene. The declaration 'against the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment' is not punishment but clarity: selective attention dissolving idols. The blood upon the doors is a token—a felt conviction, a remembered truth—that you are one with the I AM. When you, in imagination, assert that you are already united with the divine, the moment is the sign that the plague cannot touch you, for the kingdom you sought has appeared within. The plague is the old fear pattern; it is set aside as you hold to the truth. Deliverance comes not by external deliverers but by your own inner recognition. Imagination is the instrument through which this judgment is enacted, and your life shifts as you persist in the timeless I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, breathing deeply, and say, I am the I AM. Visualize a bright token of blood on your mind’s doorposts and rest in the feeling that the plague has passed over you.