Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 32:2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 32 in context

Scripture Focus

2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Ezekiel 32:2

Biblical Context

The verse presents Pharaoh as a young lion of the nations and a whale of the sea. His movement through rivers disturbs the waters and fouls their flow.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this inner scripture, Pharaoh is not a distant king but a state of consciousness that thinks power comes from force. The lion and the whale symbolize two facets of that counterfeit kingship: fierce assertion and bloated self-importance that churns the waters of your mind. You are not commanded by a foreign king; you are always the I AM, the awareness that imagines. When you keep him as an external ruler, you grant the illusion of separation and continue the agitation of the inner sea. The rivers you travel and the waters you trouble are the streams of feeling, belief, and intention in your own imagination. Your freedom begins by refusing to entertain Pharaoh as a real power outside yourself. Feel, even for a moment, the sense that you are the sovereign of your inner realm, and that imagination obeys your command. As you revise Pharaoh into a figure that serves your true kingly nature, the lion calms, the whale sinks, and the waters clear. In that stillness, the Kingdom of God is set within your heart, ready to express as your life.

Practice This Now

Assume it now: I am the I AM, sovereign over my inner sea. Close your eyes and revise the image aloud in present tense: Pharaoh is a symbol and I reign in this kingdom, and feel the waters quieting.