Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 25:15-33 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

15For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

17Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

22And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

24And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

26And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

28And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

29For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

32Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

33And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 25:15-33

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 25:15-33 portrays God giving Jeremiah a wine cup of fury and commanding all nations to drink, signaling judgment and upheaval for those clinging to old ways. A roaring Lord and a great whirlwind announce the Lord's controversy with the earth and the need for inner transformation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the cup is not punishment but a symbol of my inner state. I take it in imagination and witness how the many nations in my life—habits, fears, desires—drink when I identify with them. Their motion—drunk, mad, desolate—brightly mirrors the death of old thoughts under the sword of truth. The Lord who roars from on high is my I AM, the living awareness within, calling me to awaken from dream states. The whirlwind rising from the coasts is the surge of energy that shakes loose every limiting belief. The slain of the Lord are the remnants of my former self, scattered across the earth, not lamented but transfigured. I am urged to drink the cup, to revise through assumption, and to feel the change as already done. When I accept this inner cup, I become the authority that opens the way for a new state of consciousness to reign in my life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, hold the cup in imagination, drink it with awareness, and feel the old self dissolving. Then declare, I AM the ruler of my inner world; I drink to awaken a new state of consciousness.