Inner Fruit, Exile, Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Ephraim represents a state of consciousness planted in a pleasant outer condition, akin to Tyre and worldly ease. Yet the fruit it bears is not true life, but birth of the murderer—the belief in separation that destroys potential. The miscarrying womb and dry breasts symbolize inner barrenness born from ritualism at Gilgal and from trusting appearance over the I AM. When God says He will cast them out of His house and love them no more, He points to the ego’s choice to live by fear rather than by divine law, producing a root that dries up and fruit that withers even when outward marks resemble fruit. The exile into nations mirrors a mind scattered by false identities, disconnected from its source. But this is also a doorway: you may reinterpret the scene as a correction of belief. The truth remains that the I AM within nourishes every fruit; by turning inward and aligning with divine life, one revives the root, restores fruitful expression, and ceases wandering. The inward shift makes outer conditions reflect an inner unity rather than exile.