Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 8:7-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 8 in context

Scripture Focus

7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

8Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

10So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

11And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

13He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

15Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

16And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 8:7-16

Biblical Context

Ez 8:7-16 shows a hidden chamber in the temple where secret idols and sun-worship emerge, even as the people claim the Lord does not see. The vision hints at deeper inner idolatry and the prospect of greater abominations to follow.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how Ezekiel is guided to a hole in the wall, to dig and enter the inner court. What you are seeing is not a history lesson but the drama of your own consciousness. The wall is the boundary of your present awareness; the hole is the doorway your assumptions have sealed. The seventy elders and Jaazaniah with censers are your fixed habits of thought, the incense representing the emotional energy you throw into justifying a separate self. The words 'The LORD seeth us not' are the dream that you can escape awareness by looking away from your inner reflexes. When you are led to the door of the north gate and to the image of the sun, you are witnessing the ego’s worship of separation—images you have chosen over unity. Yet the repeated invitations to look again are not admonitions to see the outer world, but to transform your inner state. If you awaken to the I AM within, you discover that true worship is the living presence of God within your own consciousness, and the outer world conforms to that light.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM now, and walk the inner wall until the door of true worship opens. Revise every hidden image as a dream you wake from, and feel-it-real that you are in the temple of God, awake.