Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Ezekiel 19:5-6

Biblical Context

A lioness waits, loses hope, and births a young lion who roams among the lions, learning to catch prey and devour fears and old beliefs. It signals the inner rise of authoritative self-rule.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the lioness as the state of consciousness that has waited upon itself until the turn of destiny. When hope seems lost, she births a new inner ruler—the young lion. This king moves among the other lions—the voices, habits, and beliefs of your mind—and learns no longer to be ruled by fear, but to rule. He learns to catch the prey: to seize opportunities, to claim wanted experiences, to discern and pull down the claims of lack. The phrase devoured men is not cruelty but the swallowing of every false claim about who you are or what you can have. The inner kingdom rises when you replace doubt with the confident assertion of I AM. The Kingdom of God is not a distant land but the throne of awareness within you; you become the sovereign observer who permits no self-attack to rule. You are the lion who, through revision and the feeling of self-authority, transforms your inner field into a domain where power, justice, and life are lived from within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume the inner king now. Proclaim, I am the lion ruling this inner realm; feel the authority in your I AM and revise lack by devouring old beliefs with the felt reality of this new self.