Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 15:7-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 15 in context

Scripture Focus

7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

9She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

11The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

Jeremiah 15:7-14

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 15:7-14 speaks of severe judgment and hardship befalling a people who persist in their ways. It laments their fate and speaks of a remnant that will find some relief.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the gates and the fan as the inner sifting of consciousness. When I refuse to depart from old habits, the land of my mind is fanned, and I feel the pangs of loss—fear, resistance, old cravings—because I have not yielded to the truth I know. The 'spoiler at noonday' appears not as doom from without but as the sudden exposure of a buried habit that robs me of peace. The 'remnant' is my inner I AM, the core that can endure when the outer city shakes; as I identify with that remnant and remain steadfast, I am not defeated but led to a wiser land. The question ‘Shall iron break the northern iron?’ becomes: will my present decisions break my old structures for good? The 'fire' kindled in anger is my passionate decision to change; it is not destruction but purification, a furnace that burns away fear and leaves me standing in a new terrain—one I know not yet, yet choose to inhabit by my conscious act. In this, judgment becomes invitation, exile becomes a liminal gate, and return becomes the steady, luminous practice of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume the feeling 'I AM' as the remnant within, and revise any sense of lack by affirming 'It is done in my mind; I am whole.' Then feel the peace as your new consciousness, and live from that inner state.