Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 35:1-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 35 in context

Scripture Focus

1Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

3And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

6Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

7Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

8And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

11Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

12And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

13Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

14Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:1-15

Biblical Context

God pronounces judgment on Mount Seir for its perpetual hatred toward Israel and its boastful claim to possess what the LORD would reclaim; it promises desolation as the result. The passage emphasizes accountability and the returning effects of hostile actions within the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Mount Seir stands for a hardened disposition within you—a fixed mountain of envy, pride, and the belief that you must possess another's blessing. The prophet's call to set thy face against it and prophesy against it is a call to turn your inner gaze away from that stubborn mountain and reframe it in the light of I AM. When you declare, 'I am against thee,' you are not fighting a person; you are awakening to a higher self that can allow the old pattern to crumble. The 'blood' pursuing blood is the law of consequence in your own consciousness: thoughts of aggression and fear return as turmoil until you stop feeding them with imagination and replace them with the truth that the LORD dwells within. In that inner destruction, you discover that you possess nothing because you already possess all as the I AM. Then the mountains, valleys, and rivers of your inner land become a theatre where desolation cleanses and the true inheritance—your unity with the divine LORD—emerges, and the earth within rejoices.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume the feeling 'I AM the Lord of this inner land' and look upon Mount Seir with calm authority; revise it by declaring 'Desolate, be thou no more in me.' Then bless the inner mountains of Israel and witness a renewed landscape arise within.