Neville Goddard on Habakkuk 2:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Habakkuk 2 in context

Scripture Focus

1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Habakkuk 2:1-3

Biblical Context

Habakkuk 2:1–3 describes standing guard to hear God’s word, writing a clear vision, and patiently awaiting its fulfillment.

Neville's Inner Vision

This passage invites you to treat inner states as the true stage of revelation. When I say I will stand upon my watch and set myself on the tower, I am proclaiming that awareness itself is the lookout—the I AM that perceives. The vision is not a future external event but an image formed in consciousness through deliberate attention. Writing the vision plainly upon tables is the act of fixing a vivid, unambiguous image in the mind, so that the subconscious and daily life can move toward it with coherence. The appointed time belongs to the momentum of your inner state; the end speaks when you inhabit the end-state now. Waiting becomes a confident resting in the certainty that imagination births reality rather than a passive delay. The instruction is not to chase results but to align your inner substance with the truth you intend to realize. Thus the vision’s inevitability rests on your ongoing assumption and feeling that it is already fulfilled in awareness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, stand on your inner watch, and feel the vision as already realized; then write it plainly in your journal and dwell in that assured sensation until it becomes your ordinary sense of possibility.