Neville Goddard on Exodus 19:17-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 19 in context

Scripture Focus

17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Exodus 19:17-18

Biblical Context

Moses brings the people to meet God at the base of Sinai; the mount is shrouded in smoke and fire as the Lord descends, and the whole mountain quakes.

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 19:17-18 reveals not a geography but a state of consciousness. Moses brings the people to meet God, yet the encounter is inward: your I AM awakening as awareness. The mount Sinai, wrapped in smoke and fire, is the activity of your imagination when God descends into your world. The smoke ascending as a furnace and the trembling mount signify the inner movements of thought as you yield to a new conviction. This is the moment of covenant loyalty: you align with the benign law you inwardly choose—faith in your own creative power, discipline of imagination, and steadfastness in love. The event is not distant history but a present shift in being; the outer world follows the inner vision you assume. When you persist in the feeling of I AM as the only reality, the sense of separation dissolves and the holy presence becomes intimate guidance. The mountain quakes to announce transformation, not punishment, as old conditions yield to a higher reality that you have already imagined into existence.

Practice This Now

Stand where you can feel the presence of God within and declare, 'I AM THAT I AM' as your lived reality. Then revise any limitation by envisioning the old belief dissolving into light, and feel the new state occupying the place where the old fear once stood.