Inner Judgment and the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

In the present reading, the Philistines are not people but states of mind—habits of revenge and the memory of old hatreds that keep your awareness hostage. The 'despiteful heart' is that inner posture which clings to grievance as if it were protection. When Ezekiel says the Lord GOD will stretch out His hand upon the Philistines, he is describing the moment your I AM-awareness reaches down into these defenses and gently interrupts their power. The Cherethims and the remnant of the sea coast symbolize outer supports and familiar attitudes you lean on to justify retaliation—the crowding surface of your consciousness you mistake for your self. The 'great vengeance' and 'furious rebukes' are not punishment from without but the inner corrective energy of consciousness meeting resistance and dissolving it. When that meeting occurs, you know you are the LORD in operation—the authority is not a distant ruler but the I AM within you awakening to truth. With that recognition, old hatreds lose their force, and the inner kingdom begins to be known not as a place to conquer others but as a state you embody.