Neville Goddard on Isaiah 36:11-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

13Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

15Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

Isaiah 36:11-16

Biblical Context

In Isaiah 36:11-16, emissaries urge Rabshakeh to speak in a language the people can hear, while the envoy proclaims that Hezekiah and the LORD cannot deliver. The scene pits fear and worldly assurances against a call to trust in the inner power of the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

Where the city sits on the wall, you are the witnessing I AM, and the Rabshakeh's trumpet is your lingering fear, telling you that no deliverance is possible. Yet every such voice is but a reflection of your own inward state—an egoic prophecy predicting ruin to keep you attached to familiar doubt. Hear the inner Sermon: the LORD will deliver, not by force from without, but by awakening you to the truth that you are the I AM, the awareness that makes all events possible. The false king (the pressure and the rule of circumstance) claims supremacy, but he has no authority over the inner sanctuary where you dwell. Hezekiah's appeal to trust in the LORD is your call to remember your own invincible capacity to imagine a different outcome. In this reading, the so-called siege becomes a mental rehearsal: you revise the decree of fear by stating your faith in your sovereign I AM, feel its reality, and let it dissolve the outer command. By imagining yourself already delivered, you stand in the certainty that you are beyond the apparent threat.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, assume the feeling of the I AM within you, and declare that you are the Lord of this mind, already delivered and safe; let that feeling rule the moment.