Neville Goddard on Isaiah 13:2-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 13 in context

Scripture Focus

2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isaiah 13:2-9

Biblical Context

The passage shows God calling sanctified ones, gathering nations, and announcing a day of wrath to desolate the land. People tremble as the Lord's judgment arrives.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner life is not the stage for external doom, but a drama of consciousness. The banner raised on the high mountain is your decision to inhabit the I AM presence, to exalt the voice of awareness until it commands every gate of your mind. The sanctified ones and the mighty ones are the harmonized faculties of imagination you marshal when you refuse to identify with limitation. The marching multitude mirrors the gathering of thoughts unified by a single purpose: to reveal the truth of who you are. The day of the Lord arriving signals a dramatic clearing of old beliefs, a desolation of the barren land of fear as you revise from within. The howling is not punishment but your emotional release from attachment to the old narrative. If you persist in the realized state, the merely external will have no power over you; you dissolve the sinners of limitation by standing in the glory of your own true I AM.

Practice This Now

Impose this practice now: assume you are the I AM, raise an inner banner, and declare I am the sanctified, I rejoice in my highness. Then feel this state settling into your body as real.