Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 44:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 44 in context

Scripture Focus

6And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:6-7

Biblical Context

The passage addresses Israel's rebellion, accusing them of bringing strangers into God's sanctuary. They are described as uncircumcised in heart and flesh, polluting the temple and breaking the covenant because of their abominations.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel, the sanctuary is your own state of consciousness, and the rebellious act is the persistence of thoughts that do not belong to your true I AM. Strangers, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, denote beliefs and appetites that have not been purged by awareness—habits and fantasies that enter your inner temple and pollute the holy space you call mind. To pollute is to separate your living awareness from its divine source, to allow a covenant with fear, guilt, or limitation to govern your feelings. The remedy is not ritual from without, but an inner re-choosing: you affirm that you are the I AM, and you revise every stray image by imagining it belongs to the very life of God, not to your old sense of self. When you consistently assume the truth of your unity with the divine, your offerings—bread, fat, and blood—become the life of consciousness itself, free from taint. The covenant is renewed the moment you refuse to tolerate inner uncleanliness and replace it with the feeling of wholeness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and declare, 'I am the sanctuary; I am clean; I banish every stranger from my mind.' Then feel the truth by imagining a pure temple within, where the I AM resides and all abominations dissolve into light.