Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 36:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 36 in context

Scripture Focus

1Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

2Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

4Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Ezekiel 36:1-4

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 36:1-4 shows God instructing the prophet to speak to the mountains and land, asserting that desolation and enemy possession arise from belief rather than fact. The passage invites viewing inner places as ripe for renewal through prophetic speech.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Ezekiel speaks, and the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys are not distant cliffs of stone but the inner climate of your own mind. When you hear the Lord GOD say, Because the enemy has said the high places are theirs, you are summoned to prophesy to the desolations you hold as reality. In Neville's method, the outer world mirrors your inner-state; the enemy’s words are the conscientious suggestion that your identity and your good are in others' possession. The mountains of Israel become the stand-ins for steadfast states of consciousness—firm, solid, sacred—now claimed by the I AM that you are. By prophesying restoration to what has seemed taken, you declare that desolation is only a belief, an old lease on life you can cancel with new script. The towns and desolate places around you are not victims but reflections of a mind that can be revised. When you assume a new state, the desolation cedes, and the 'heathen around' recede as the old talkers dissolve. In this light, judgment becomes accountability to your own mind, and return becomes the natural expansion of your I AM into fuller life.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare in the present tense: I AM the mountains restored; I AM the land made new. Feel the revival as if it already happened, and dwell in that state for a few minutes today.