Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 40:42-43 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 40 in context

Scripture Focus

42And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Ezekiel 40:42-43

Biblical Context

The text describes four stone tables for burnt offerings, with hooks around them and the flesh of the offering laid upon the tables.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel’s account, the tables and hooks are not brick and iron, but stages of your own consciousness. The stone tables signify clear, unshakable awareness; on them you lay the instruments of your decisions—the thoughts and feelings by which you appoint reality. The hooks encircling the tables are the habits of mind you cling to, attachments that keep you tethered to a given outcome. The flesh on the tables represents the form your offering takes when your state of consciousness hums in harmony with life. To 'sacrifice' is not an external act but an inner revision: a deliberate shift of attention and belief toward the presence of God, the I AM that you are. When you acknowledge that the temple is within, you allow the divine presence to dwell there and to translate your inner offering into outward experience. The vision invites you to realize that results follow your assumed state; therefore you may revise the assumption, feel the wish as already true, and let your inner sanctuary do the work.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and stand before your inner altar. Revise a current limitation into its opposite, silently declaring 'I AM presence now,' then feel that state filling your body until it becomes your lived experience.