Neville Goddard on Exodus 17:14-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 17 in context

Scripture Focus

14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

16For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus 17:14-16

Biblical Context

God commands Moses to record a memorial of Amalek's defeat and to rehearse it to Joshua; the text marks an ongoing divine warrior stance against a persistent inner adversary.

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 17:14-16 speaks not of a geographic war but of a decision of awareness. Amalek represents the instinctive, ungoverned attitude in you that survives by fear and doubt; God swears a perpetual war with that habit until it is utterly forgotten. The memorial in a book is your own reteaching of memory—keeping alive the recognition that you can stop feeding the old pattern by repeating a new awareness. The altar named Jehovahnissi—'the LORD is my banner'—becomes your present stance of awareness over the old tendency. When Moses writes and rehearses to Joshua, you are being instructed to rehearse your new state until it becomes second nature. The promise that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation reveals that this is a continuous practice of the I AM within you; you are not chasing victory in time but aligning yourself with an unending movement of consciousness that erases the old memory from under heaven. Your inner battle ends when you insist on the present, all-pervasive presence of God in every thought.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of I AM here and now: declare 'I am Jehovah-Nissi,' feel the banner of God over your mind, and revise any memory of limitation until it resonates as present reality.