Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Ezekiel 19:3-4

Biblical Context

A whelp grows into a predatory lion that devours; the nations hear of him, trap him in a pit, and carry him to Egypt.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 3-4 unfolds as a drama of the self: a whelp raised in consciousness becomes a young lion, seizing prey and swallowing lives. The world’s noise—nations—hears of this power and traps him in a pit, hauling him into Egypt. In Neville’s psychology, the whelp is a state of consciousness that once acted through appetite and domination. The lion is not a separate ruler, but a particular identified I - the part of you that believes it must prey on life to prove its strength. When that I AM identifies with the lion and its prey, it finds itself exposed to the pit of limitation and carried by the collective beliefs about bondage—the land of Egypt. Yet the real key is not punishment but awareness: the lion’s capture reveals that you have given form to a force through belief. The inner scene can be reversed by awakening to a higher sense of I AM: you are not defined by predation or exile, but by the consciousness that commands the beast. When you revise the scene with the I AM as sovereign, the lion calms, the pit dissolves, and Egypt becomes a symbolic return to the present, a home in God-consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare that you are the I AM, you tame the inner lion; you are not the prey, you are the observer. Feel the sense of freedom as you revise the scene in your imagination.