Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 38:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 38 in context

Scripture Focus

11And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezekiel 38:11-12

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of going to a land of unwalled villages, a place of rest and safety, where there is no gate or bar. The intention is to seize spoil and to revive desolate places and populations gathered from the nations.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's voice, the land is not geographical but a state of mind you enter by an assumption. Unwalled villages denote open, unguarded awareness, a mind free from the fear that gates perception. Rest and safety are inner conditions your I AM can claim; there are no bars when you know you are the ruler of your inner world. To 'take a spoil' becomes the act of claiming your desired results by imagining them into being, not by force but by the truth you affirm. The line about turning the hand on desolate places speaks of healing neglected areas of life by revising them in imagination—seeing them alive, useful, and inhabited again under your sovereign consciousness. The 'people gathered out of the nations' are the varied experiences you now own under the I AM, unified by your assumption. This is an inward prophecy fulfilled: you are returning from exile within to the promise of plenitude, for imagination is the master of reality and you are its faithful instrument.

Practice This Now

Practice: Say, 'I go up to the land of unwalled villages,' with deep feeling. Stay there in that scene until it feels real, then watch it unfold in your life.