Vine and Fire Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel’s vision, the vine is your consciousness, standing among the forest of your many thoughts and identities. The fire that feeds the fuel is not punishment but the alchemical pressure of awareness, clearing what you have mistaken for yourself. When the Lord says He will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem to this fire, He is naming the inner faculties—the will, faith, memory, and perception—who must be refined to serve the higher order of your being. In Neville’s terms, you are the I AM, the undivided awareness that can endure the furnace and emerge clarified. The exile and judgment speak not of doom from without, but of a shift in consciousness: by letting the old self burn away, you make room for the true Jerusalem—the state of wholeness that already exists in you. So the burning is a blessing, a turning back to the covenant with your own I AM, the unity that survives every trial. Trust that the fire is working to separate the unreal from the real, revealing the inner city in you that never departs from God.