Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 22:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 22 in context

Scripture Focus

21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

22The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 22:21-22

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 22:21-22 portrays God addressing a people who prosper yet refuse to listen. Their lifelong pattern of disobedience ends in exposure, captivity, and shame.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this moment, the text invites you to look inward. Prosperity is not a reward but a state of consciousness in which you believe you hear, yet persist in turning away from the inner voice you call God. The refusal to hear is the ego clinging to familiar thoughts, the 'I will not hear' of your mental weather, generating a wind that must sweep away your outdated pastors and beloved idols—those trusted authorities and substitutes you cling to in place of the one voice within. The wind, in your memory, is not punishment but the natural disintegration of anything that no longer serves your true state of awareness. When you align with the I AM—the living, aware presence that you are—you discover that the catastrophe spoken of as exile is simply a shift of attention. The 'ashamed and confounded' outcome becomes inner clarity: you recognize the falsity of your former idols and step into obedience to the inner command. Your life then becomes a field in which the true self can rule by imagination.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close eyes, assume you are hearing the inner voice now; revise the scene to say, 'I hear and obey the I AM within.' Feel the assurance that prosperity flows from alignment, and carry this feeling into your next decision.