Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 23:37-39 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 23 in context

Scripture Focus

37That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Ezekiel 23:37-39

Biblical Context

They commit adultery with their idols and sacrifice their children. They enter the sanctuary to profane it, defiling the temple and sabbaths.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville lens, the verse speaks of states of consciousness, not merely external acts. Adultery with idols represents a mind convinced that some image—power, security, pleasure—has replaced the I AM within. Blood on their hands is the visible consequence of living in fear and craving; the children sacrificed to idols are the formed aspects of self that the mind drains of life by worshiping substitutes. Bringing these idols into the sanctuary shows the split in awareness: outward ritual while interior defilement remains. The sanctuary is your inner state of God consciousness; sabbath is the resting in that awareness. When you act as if you must appease a false god, you desecrate your temple and disrupt the rhythm of inner peace. The remedy is a revision: assume the consciousness of the one true worship, your I AM. See yourself as the sanctuary that is holy because God dwells there, and let the idols fade as you affirm that there is only I AM within you, and you are holy.