Neville Goddard on Isaiah 36:17-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

17Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Isaiah 36:17-20

Biblical Context

The Assyrian threat tests faith and mocks reliance on other gods. The passage suggests true deliverance comes from the I AM within, not from external powers.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your reading of Isaiah 36:17-20 invites you to see the siege as a projection of your own mind. The Assyrian king and his boasts are not distant powers but states of consciousness—fear, pride, and reliance on imagined 'gods' of circumstance. When the voice says, 'The LORD will deliver us,' it echoes a common spiritual posture: hoping an external god will intervene. Neville teaches to turn the scene inside out: the savior of Jerusalem is the I AM you awaken within, the living present awareness that judges nothing as inside or outside your control. The land of corn and wine you seek is the abundance of imagination when you settle in the certainty that God is within and you are that God in action. Practice: assume the feeling of already having been delivered by your inner God. As you revise the thought—'I am delivered now by the I AM'—let fear fade and behold an inner city rising, a steadfast capital built from awareness rather than circumstance.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the feeling of being already delivered by the I AM within. Revise the thought of external deliverance to 'I am delivered now by the I AM.'