Inner Beasts Devour: Isaiah 56:9

Neville's Inner Vision

I read Isaiah 56:9 as a summons to watch the movements of consciousness rather than the external scene. The 'beasts' are the restless thoughts, appetites, and fears that arise when I forget that I am the I AM, the awareness that shapes reality. When I identify with that awareness, these inner creatures lose their leverage, for they exist only as states of consciousness I can revise. The exile and judgment spoken of in prophecy become inner movements toward a return to stillness; the field and forest are symbols of my own inner landscapes, where fear and desire crowd in. By acknowledging the beasts without surrendering to them, I take sovereign authority over my experience, imagining that peace is already present and that I am the one who names reality. The devourer is not an enemy in time but a pointer to unreclaimed energy I am free to redirect by the I AM. In this way, the promised return is the awakening to this self-awareness, a continuous act of conscious creation.