Offering Before Foundation

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra 3:6 offers us a portrait of a people who begin to offer sacrifice on the first day of the seventh month, before the outer house stands. In Neville style grammar, this is a concrete illustration of consciousness acting before form: the I AM, your essential awareness, makes the offering, and the foundation is the inner conviction that the temple exists in awareness. The seventh month symbolizes a favorable season in which faith is declared. The act of burning offerings is not about appeasing a distant deity, but about acknowledging you are the house in which God dwells. When you revise the scene inwardly, you place the foundation before the wall and roof: you choose to inhabit already the temple of your life by your present state. Thus, the outer world begins to respond not as the cause but as the echo of your inner dedication. The practice is simple: assume you are already the worshipper within a completed temple, and feel gratitude that the temple exists now in your consciousness.