Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:2-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:2-9

Biblical Context

Plain paraphrase: Ezekiel pictures a mother lioness whose cubs become lions, then devour prey. The lions are trapped, carried away to exile, and their roaring is silenced by chains and captivity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the mother lioness is the living I AM - the grand awareness that frames every scene. The whelps are the fragments of self that believe power comes from gnashing teeth in a hostile world. The nations, chains, and Babylon represent the mind's belief in separation and control. Exile and desolation are not 'out there' but states you consent to when you forget you are the creator of every scene. Your roar, though feared, is a call to remember your sovereignty; when you identify with the thought of limitation, you feed the very confinement you fear. The healing is simple: assume the end, feel the lion's strength as your present reality, and let the external conditions align to your inner conviction as events follow conviction. Know that the mountains of Israel become a stage for your freedom as you awaken to I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the end—feel yourself as the lioness of awareness, then the grown lion inside you roaring from I AM. Rehearse silently, 'I AM free; no external power binds me,' until that sensation feels real.