Neville Goddard on Exodus 24:9-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 24 in context

Scripture Focus

9Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

12And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

13And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

14And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

15And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 24:9-18

Biblical Context

Moses and the elders ascend Sinai to behold the God of Israel, receive a law, and enter a gathered presence. The scene points to an inner ascent into consciousness and a personal covenant with the divine.

Neville's Inner Vision

On the inner level, Sinai is your own state of consciousness where the I AM can be discovered as presence. The ascent of Moses, Aaron, and the elders corresponds to your inner faculties gathering in a single vow to enter the stillness of awareness. The sight of God and the stone tables represent the clear, unchangeable laws your imagination can accept as real. The cloud that covers the mount for six days and the seventh-day call signal the quiet seasons in which you do not seek, but stand in the certainty of I AM. When you finally enter the cloud and stay, you experience the glory as fiery illumination burning away doubt, until you live from the realization that you are already united with the divine. This is not distant history but a blueprint for your inner life: an ongoing forty-day-and-night practice of being as the I AM, letting your imagined law govern your every thought and action.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume you are already on the mount, let the I AM presence fill you, and imagine the inner law anchored in your heart as if written on stone.