Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 18:24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 18 in context

Scripture Focus

24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 18:24

Biblical Context

The verse warns that life or death hinges on one inner state: if the righteous turn to wrongdoing, past deeds do not redeem in that moment, and the life of consciousness ends.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Ezekiel's question as a mirror held up to your own consciousness. The righteous turning from righteousness and walking in iniquity is not a breach in a code but a switch of identification from the I AM that you are to a lesser self clinging to the notion of sin. When you dwell in righteousness as a fixed external record, you live only as long as you keep the memory of that record alive. The verse says that in your trespass the past righteousness cannot save you; you die not by the decree of God but by your renewed belief in separation. The good you did remains inert until you reemerge into the awareness that you are the living idea of God, here and now. To reclaim life return to the consciousness that your true state is the I AM, in which righteousness is a present tense state, not a past ledger. When you realign the inner scene rewrites itself and what you call life flows anew.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, declare that you are the righteousness of God in consciousness, and stay with that state until it becomes your felt reality. Feel the inner lift as you revise the sense of self from lack to fullness.