Neville Goddard on Isaiah 18:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 18 in context

Scripture Focus

1Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

Isaiah 18:1-7

Biblical Context

Isaiah 18:1-7 describes a distant land under judgment and a future return to Zion, with pruning before the harvest as preparation for restoration.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the land shadowing with wings becomes a state of consciousness that hides behind protective habit, while ambassadors by sea symbolize thoughts sent forth to distant powers to secure certainty. When you hear the trumpet or see the ensign, you are being invited to awaken your inner government—the I AM that surveys the heart and calls forth alignment. The Lord resting 'like a clear heat upon herbs, like dew in the harvest' is your inner truth settling softly in the body; a warmth that nourishes and clarifies. Before the harvest, the bud and the sour grape speak of pruning—the shedding of obsolete images and false identities—so that the branches that serve your life can bear fruit. The fowls and beasts gathering on the discarded branches illustrate abandoned beliefs finally being released to be transformed in you. The promise is that the present is brought to the LORD of hosts, to Zion within, where your consciousness is named and known. You are called to let this inner Zion organize your now.