From Darkness to Covenant Return

Genesis 15:12-16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Genesis 15 in context

Scripture Focus

12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Genesis 15:12-16

Biblical Context

Abram falls into a deep sleep as day fades, and a dark foreboding speaks that his seed will be strangers and afflicted for four hundred years, followed by judgment and eventual abundance, with Abram dying in peace before a promised return.

Neville's Inner Vision

Let the scene be seen as a drama of your own mind. The sun going down and the deep sleep are the inward descent into belief that you are separate from your source. The horror of great darkness is fear in imagination, a temporary veil over the I AM. The forecast about your seed becoming strangers and afflicted is a description of the mind that follows a certain ruling thought and what you permit as real. Yet the judgment that follows is not punishment but the natural clearing of a habit of fear, so that you may come out with great substance—the radiant result of a revised state. The instruction to return to your fathers in peace points to the inner continuity of consciousness through time. The fourth generation returning to this land is your awareness completing the cycle of belief, returning to the promise after the old pattern is outgrown. Not yet full of iniquity means you are still clearing, still choosing; in waking you realize the state where exile becomes a remembered dream and arrival into abundance is your true nature.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume you are already in the promised land. Revise the scene by affirming I am one with abundance now and feel gratitude as the exodus has already occurred.

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