Neville Goddard on Exodus 14:10-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 14 in context

Scripture Focus

10And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

11And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

12Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Exodus 14:10-12

Biblical Context

In Exodus 14:10-12, the Israelites fear the pursuing Egyptians, cry out to the LORD, and question Moses, wishing to return to Egypt rather than face the wilderness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus shows a people in a crisis of belief, not a geography. Pharaoh riding the horizon is the pressing memory of limitation; the sea and wilderness are inner states, not external miles. The cry of the Israelites is a confession of their current consciousness: they imagine themselves trapped, clinging to the old Egypt-identified self. When they cry out to the LORD, they are calling upon their I AM, the living awareness within, though they do not yet recognize it as such. The fear and complaint reveal the superstition that salvation must come from something outside their own awakening. The promised deliverance is not a march of soldiers but a change of mind: to move from a dependent, fearful identity into an inner freedom that is already present. As you return to your own practice, observe the impulse to stay in the old story and choose instead to identify with the I AM, imagine the Red Sea parting inside, and step through into the liberty that you already are.