Neville Goddard on Isaiah 20:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 20 in context

Scripture Focus

3And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

4So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

5And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

6And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

Isaiah 20:3-6

Biblical Context

Isaiah is told to act out a sign by walking naked and barefoot to signal how external powers will humiliate and strip nations; people will wonder where help will come, and the verse foresees a crisis of reliance on worldly kingdoms.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the sign in Isaiah is not a spectacle of punishment but a rehearsal in consciousness. The Lord speaks in your awareness: what you name Egypt or Assyria are states of mind you have yielded to as powers over you. The nakedness is the stripping away of finite self-images; as you consent to the I Am, outer signs—humiliation, fear of conquest, the sense of being led—appear as the effects of an inner belief. Now imagine you are untouched by these 'princes' because you no longer identify with them. The king of Assyria is your present difficulty, yet deliverance comes not by subduing it with force but by turning inward and declaring, 'I AM' and feeling the reality of protection as if it were already done. Fear of exposure yields to a quiet certainty that is true liberty. The nations and their 'glory' are projections of your mind. Your inner state, imagined as already complete, dissolves them. You walk through the day with that inner light, and the outward world follows the change of your heart.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are already delivered; softly repeat, 'I AM that I AM,' letting the feeling of safety rise until it fills your body, then move about the day from that inner certainty as your new reality.