Neville Goddard on Ezra 4:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezra 4 in context

Scripture Focus

8Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

9Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

10And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.

Ezra 4:8-10

Biblical Context

The verses describe Rehum and Shimshai sending a letter to the king, naming diverse nations settled near Samaria to oppose Jerusalem.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text, the external letter is a symbol of the inner 'agents' of limitation—habits, fears, and inherited opinions—that still speak against the rebuilding of your Jerusalem, your state of wholeness. Rehum, Shimshai, and the named peoples are not distant nations but figures of your own mind that insist the past cannot be changed. Artaxerxes the king is the awareness, the I AM, who rules the day—your present moment of consciousness that can authorize a new order. The exile and return describe the inner movement from belief in separation back to unity with the divine self. Providence and Guidance show up as your imagination working behind the scenes, aligning your inner city with the realm you intend to inhabit. The 'city of Samaria' and the river-side towns become inner stations where you choose to host peace, courage, and restoration. By choosing to assume the feeling that Jerusalem is rebuilt within you, you align with the inner king and let the apparent external letters dissolve as your imagination endorses a new reality.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the king authorizing restoration; in your mind, rewrite the letter as a declaration that Jerusalem is rebuilt, and feel the inner city becoming real now.