Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 35:10-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 35 in context

Scripture Focus

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 35:10-15

Biblical Context

Edom boasts about possessing Israel, but God declares He will judge and reveal Himself through their envy. Their words reflect an inner state, and desolation follows to demonstrate that the LORD is present as the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

I read Ezekiel as a map of consciousness. The two nations and two mountains are inner factions—the impulse to possess and the envy that guards it—rival gods in my own mind. The LORD there is not a distant throne but the I AM, awareness itself, watching every thought and every boast. When I judge these inner foes, the I AM reveals itself in the act of judgment, saying, I am here. Your blasphemies against the mountains of Israel are my awareness hearing my mind's rebellion. If I rejoice because I think I possess, the whole earth of my experience will desolate itself, showing me the emptiness of that claim. But if I allow the desolation to turn me inward, I am taught the truth: I am the LORD, the I AM, the constant presence beyond form. Then the outer world changes not by force, but by the recognition that the inner kingdom is established. In that recognition, the mind becomes quiet and the heart knows its true inheritance.

Practice This Now

Practice: Assume the state 'I am the LORD here' for five minutes, revise any boastful thought with 'I possess only awareness,' and feel-it-real that the inner kingdom is established, so outer conditions align with that quiet mind.