Neville Goddard on Isaiah 21:6-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 21 in context

Scripture Focus

6For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Isaiah 21:6-12

Biblical Context

The LORD commands a watchman to declare what he sees. The vision includes chariots and the fall of Babylon, with night yielding to a coming morning and an invitation to inquire or return.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard perspective, the watchman is your standing consciousness surveying the night of belief. The oracle's vision of chariots and the fall of Babylon is not external history but a disclosure of your inner ideas about power, lack, and salvation. Babylon's images are the fixed notions you have mistaken for real gods; their fall signals that you can revise them by turning the gaze inward. When the watchman cries 'Babylon is fallen,' he names the liberating act of seeing through a false identity and restoring alignment with the I AM, the awareness that you are the author of your experience. The line about the night and the morning is a reminder that all night thoughts yield to dawn when you refuse to accept them as final. The call to inquire or return is your invitation to practice revision again and again until the inner sight is clear and the world shifts to reflect your inner state. The true prophecy is your conscious title to reality already realized.

Practice This Now

Assume the role of the watchman in your own mind; in a moment of stillness, say quietly, 'Babylon is fallen' and feel the truth of your desired state already here; dwell in that vision until the morning light in consciousness becomes your first awareness.