Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 40:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 40 in context

Scripture Focus

1In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

3And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

4And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 40:1-4

Biblical Context

In Ezekiel 40:1–4, the prophet is carried into a divine vision on a high mount where a man with measuring tools stands at the gate and commands him to observe and declare what he sees.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture this vision as your own interior reality, not a distant page of scripture. The hand of the LORD upon Ezekiel is the I AM drawing your attention to a land of Israel within you—a land you are, even now, asked to enter. The high mountain is your elevated perception, a vantage where ideas take form. The frame of a city on the south hints at a structured life you are about to build in consciousness. The brass-like man with a flax line and a measuring reed is your inner instrument: disciplined awareness and the exacting scale by which you measure impressions until they align with truth. He stands at the gate because every new perception begins at the threshold of belief; you must cross that threshold with certainty. The command—behold with thine eyes, hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee—reminds you that you are the seer and the builder. To be brought hither is your invitation to revise your sense of self, declare your intention, and permit the inner blueprint to unfold into outer experience.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the gate of your inner Israel before you. See a brass-colored figure at the gate with a reed; say softly to yourself: I observe and declare all that I am shown, and I now inhabit the vision I intend.