Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 20:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 20 in context

Scripture Focus

1Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

2Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

3And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

4For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

5Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

6And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Jeremiah 20:1-6

Biblical Context

Pashur, priest and ruler, torments Jeremiah for his prophecies, and the prophet foretells Judah's exile to Babylon. He also reframes Pashur’s name to Magormissabib, signaling a turn of inner tide.

Neville's Inner Vision

The scene Jeremiah 20:1–6 is your inner mind meeting a stubborn belief as Pashur. The house of the LORD is the sanctuary of awareness within you; the stocks are the cages of limitation you have accepted as real. When you insist on a prophecy others fear, the I AM answers by revealing the cost of clinging to old identities. Jeremiah’s renaming of Pashur to Magormissabib—terror to himself and his friends—shows that every thought and spoken word carries energy and consequence in your inner world. The threat of exile to Babylon is not a future punishment but a present invitation: detach from familiar alignments and let a truer liberty take root in your mind. Deliverance comes not from outward events but from the state you choose to inhabit now. You are the speaker and the audience of your own prophecy; by revising, renaming, and feeling it real in the I AM, you awaken to the power that was always there, transforming fear into awareness, bondage into freedom, today.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the I AM as your present reality. Name the inner Pashur as a belief that fears truth, then revise it to Magormissabib by declaring, I am free now, and feel the liberation in your chest.