Neville Goddard on Exodus 5:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

2And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Exodus 5:1-2

Biblical Context

Moses and Aaron tell Pharaoh to let the people go so they may hold a feast unto the LORD in the wilderness. Pharaoh answers that he does not know the LORD and refuses to let Israel go.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner life presents the same moment: the word of the LORD comes as a decree from within, inviting release from bondage so that you may gather in a wilderness feast of presence. Pharaoh’s question, 'Who is the LORD?' is the ego’s refusal to acknowledge the Source you are waking to. The LORD is not an external deity but the I AM—your unconditioned awareness that can command attention and allegiance. When you hear the call, you are asked to abandon loyalty to old identities—the sense that you are merely a slave to circumstance—and to accept a new obedience to the inner voice. The feast in the wilderness symbolizes a direct communion with life itself, a turning toward being rather than doing, a moment in which your inner state aligns with the truth that you are already free. The true presence of God arises as you practice this inner allegiance and let the old fears dissolve, knowing that the command to go is the invitation to awaken.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume you are already free; feel the feast in the wilderness as inner communion with the presence you truly are. Then revise any doubting thought as Pharaoh fading in light of the I AM.