Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 27:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 27 in context

Scripture Focus

5They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

7Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

Ezekiel 27:5-7

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 27:5-7 describes a ship built with fir boards, cedars, oaks, ivory benches, and embroidered linen sails. Neville reads this as a symbolic self where outer craft reflects inner states and the Kingdom of God within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the ship of Ezekiel not as a foreign craft but as your own consciousness made manifest. The boards of fir from Senir, Lebanon's cedars, and Bashan's oaks are the sturdy images you crew your life with—thoughts you trust, habits you honor, ways you move. The benches of ivory are the refined values you sit upon; the embroidered linen sail is your cultivated imagination; the blue and purple covering from distant isles is the color you drape over your days—the beauty of an Imago Dei within you. In this light, God is the I AM present in your awareness, the sense that you are the author and captain of the vessel you inhabit. The Kingdom of God is not a distant territory but the sovereign order of your inner state, a condition you assume and feel real. Wealth and provision arise as your inner architecture aligns with that kingdom, not as mere outward gain. The ship prospers as you revise, imagine, and dwell as if you have already steered it true.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is the captain of your life and revise a limiting belief, then feel it real. Visualize the ship gliding freely with sails of blue and purple, charting a course toward the Kingdom of God within.