Neville Goddard on Isaiah 36:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

5I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

6Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

Isaiah 36:4-6

Biblical Context

Rabshakeh challenges Hezekiah and Judah, urging reliance on Egypt and military might. The danger is that such trust is a fragile, vain substitute for inner power.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's terms, Rabshakeh's boast is the outer whisper of a mind asleep to its own power. The great king and his armies symbolize the habitual belief that power comes from alliances, wealth, or circumstance. Hezekiah, within this reading, is your innermost awareness—standing at the gate of consciousness and hearing the clamor of fear. The chapter invites you to see that trust placed in the 'Egypt' of the world is not security but a reed that will pierce the hand that leans on it. When you imagine you are small, or that power comes from without, you contract your life to the image you hold. The remedy is simple: assume the state in which your awareness is the only power and the source of every event. Feel the truth as a present-tense fact, not a future hope—that the I AM you inhabit is greater than any external claim. Revise the scene by placing the I AM at the center and feel it real; let the reed dissolve as you rest in your inner sovereignty.