Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 19:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 19 in context

Scripture Focus

4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Jeremiah 19:4-5

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 19:4-5 condemns Judah for abandoning the Lord, filling the place with the blood of innocents and building altars to Baal. The passage points to the danger of worshiping idols and the need for obedience to the true God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's scene is not a distant history; it is your inner weather. When you forsake the I AM and burn incense to other gods, you are painting your inner space with loyalties that do not know you. The 'blood of innocents' is the inner violence that erupts when parts of you are condemned or sacrificed on the altar of fear or reputation. The high places of Baal are your habitual images—success, security, approval—that you treat as more real than the living I AM. In that state, judgment and separation follow: you feel estranged from your own temple and from God. The healing is simple in form, radical in effect: return to the consciousness of I AM, reclaim the temple as the dwelling place of awareness, and revise the narrative so that no idol has power to define you. When you feel it real that you are the I AM, the impostors dissolve, the blood dries up, and the temple is restored to grace.

Practice This Now

In a quiet moment, declare I am the I AM; this temple is mine to consecrate to God alone. Then feel the reality of that state by revising any idol as powerless in your awareness.