Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 22:20-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 22 in context

Scripture Focus

20As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

21Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

Ezekiel 22:20-22

Biblical Context

Ez 22:20–22 uses a furnace to picture God gathering metals and melting them in anger—a refining judgment dissolving outward identities. The point is to awaken you to the Lord's purifying action and reveal the true self that remains.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Ezekiel’s furnace not as a threat from without but as your own psyche’s refining stove. The metals gathered—silver, brass, iron, lead, tin—are your beliefs and identifications about yourself. As the fire is blown on them, you experience the heat of awareness turning them to striving, forcing resistance to soften. The I AM, the one everlasting presence, watches as you allow the heat to do its work. The 'melting' is not punishment; it is a conversion of fixed images into living consciousness. When you feel anger, fear, or judgment arise, you are hearing the Lord's voice in your own attention, declaring: this is not who you are. The moment of surrender when the impurities dissolve is the recognition that you are not these thoughts but the awareness that observes them. Then the fury reveals its purpose: to wake you to your true nature—the I AM, untouched by the imagery of separation. So know that the fire is your friend, your instrument of clarity, and your only real power to create.