Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 20:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 20 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Jeremiah 20:4-5

Biblical Context

God declares Jerusalem will become a terror to itself and its friends, and the city will fall to enemies with captives and plunder. Judah's strength, labors, and treasures are delivered into the hands of their enemies to spoil and carry away.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, this is not a prophecy of punishment but a description of your inner state. The 'terror to thyself' is the haunting fear you cultivate within by insisting you are apart from the I AM. The 'friends' are the trusted allies of your habit patterns that fear your power. When the enemies strike and the sword falls, it is the mind's dream of separation that bleeds within you. The 'hand of the king of Babylon' is the outer conditions you summoned through belief in lack and limitation; your inner strength, your labors and treasures, are handed over to these dream-conditions when you forget your divine unity. Yet the verse ends with a release: deliverance comes when you realize the same power that judged also saves. The I AM can carry the entire scene to a higher state of consciousness, whereby fear and captivity dissolve and you awaken to your true wealth as ideas in God. In this light, judgment becomes an invitation to revise your inner script, not a sentence that confines you.

Practice This Now

Assume the role of the I AM ruling your inner city; revise the scene by declaring, I am free and intact in God, until fear dissolves and your inner treasures are restored.