Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 39:9-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 39 in context

Scripture Focus

9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

10So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

12And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

13Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

14And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

15And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

16And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:9-16

Biblical Context

The passage shows a long symbolic cleansing: the people burn weapons for seven years, then bury Gog to purify the land; survivors continue the work for months, until the land is made clean.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle, the 'land' is the waking state of your own awareness. The burning of weapons is the decisive act of relinquishing every defense you have relied upon—anger, grievance, the habit of blame. The seven years of fire is not time measured by clocks, but a sustained assumption until fear and separation are consumed by your inner flame. Gog stands for the stubborn ego that would resist change; his graveyard is the valley Hamongog, the place in your mind where such refusals are laid to rest. When the land is cleansed, seven months of burial symbolize the careful attention you give to the lingering memories and beliefs that must be removed before true renewal. The people of the land working 'continual employment' are your daily acts of fidelity to this new state, and the name Hamonah—your inner city renamed for rest—signifies the interior result: a mind free, a soul at peace, a world that reflects your newly assumed reality.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close your eyes and assume you have already burned every weapon of fear from your mind for seven continuous minutes (or longer until you feel settled). Visualize burying Gog in the valley of Hamongog and hear the people of the land proclaim 'Hamonah'—a city now named for rest—then feel your mind cleansed as this new reality.