Neville Goddard on Isaiah 2:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

7Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 2:6-9

Biblical Context

Isaiah 2:6-9 describes a people who turn away from their true inner source, chasing diviners and outer riches. Idols fill their land as they bow to the works of their hands.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the 'house of Jacob' is your inner house—the field of your own consciousness. When you heed the East—the lure of diviners, the glitter of silver and gold—you hand over sovereignty to imagined powers outside the I AM. The verse paints wealth and idols not as external failure but as inner states: the imagination leaning on signs, pleasures, and forms rather than on its creator. The 'mean man' and the 'great man' bowing down represent the tiny and the grand self surrendering to fear, not to the abiding presence of God within. Yet forgiveness remains available; you simply refuse to hold the old image any longer and reinterpret it. The call is to awaken to the truth that you are already the I AM, and everything you desire is a state of consciousness awaiting acknowledgment. By revision—seeing wealth, honors, and idols as symbols within you, not outcomes outside—you invite the inner kingdom to stand in you as reality, right here and now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and feel the throne of the I AM within you. Assume the state: I am the I AM; all wealth, power, and guidance come from within; imagine the inner kingdom arising now.