Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 6:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 6 in context

Scripture Focus

5And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

6In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 6:5-7

Biblical Context

God declares judgment on Israel for idol-worship: the dead will lie before their idols, bones scattered, and cities and altars desolated, until the people know that I am the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Ezekiel, the scene of dead bodies laid before idols is not punishment inflicted from without, but the revelation of the inner state you have been nursing. The bones scattered around altars symbolize the fragmentation of your inner life when you yield to outer images. When you dwell in cities and high places of ritual and external worship, your inner sanctuary becomes desolate; your altars lie waste, your idols break, and your works are abolished—until you learn the meaning of 'I am the LORD.' The LORD is not a distant deity but the I AM within you, the living awareness that asks only one thing: whose reality are you underwriting with your thoughts? When you affirm that you are the I AM, you stop feeding the old forms and allow the living Presence to reorganize your inner world. The slain among you indicate the death of old beliefs and attachments, making it possible for you to awaken to the truth that the One Self is sovereign. Thus, the judgment is the awakening that shifts you from idol-worship to conscious alignment with your true state.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the LORD of this temple.' Then imagine the idols dissolving, your inner sanctuary restored, and feel the I AM as a steady, unchanging presence within.