Cain’s City Within Revelation

Genesis 4:17-19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Genesis 4 in context

Scripture Focus

17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
18And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 4:17-19

Biblical Context

Cain builds a city named Enoch. His line then unfolds from Irad to Mehujael to Methusael to Lamech, who takes two wives.

Neville's Inner Vision

Cain's act of building a city is not about bricks but about a state of consciousness you accept as real. When he names the city after his son Enoch, you are reminded that your inner narrative names your surroundings. The sequence of Irad, Mehujael, Methusael, and Lamech is the outward tail of an inward posture: a chain of conditions that follow from one dominant assumption. Lamech taking two wives unveils the mind’s habit of multiplying poles of desire under a single banner, a sign that you may be living in conflicting convictions. Neville would tell you that 'God' or the I AM is the silent witness: you, the one aware, have harnessed imagination to birth form. To redeem, revise the inner story: decide the city you wish to inhabit and inhabit it now. By feeling the reality of that state—already finished in the I AM—you dissolve the old cities and their tangled lines. Your present world is your dream turned solid by attention and faith.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume, in present tense, 'I AM the city within me now' and dwell in the feeling of living there. Then revise any conflicting memory by renaming the city to reflect your desired state.

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