Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 26:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 26 in context

Scripture Focus

17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Jeremiah 26:17-19

Biblical Context

An elder assembly recalls Micah’s warning about Zion and Jerusalem. Hezekiah’s prayer to the LORD leads to mercy, showing that turning to God in consciousness can avert calamity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you the elders rise as a memory of a choice to fear the future. Micah’s prophecy becomes a symbol of the judgment you have imagined; yet when you turn to the I AM—the living awareness within—you revise the decree. Hezekiah’s prayer is your own reverent breath toward the LORD of Hosts in you. When you besought the LORD with sincerity, the 'evil' you projected is repented by your inner governor, the I AM. Therefore Zion is the awakened state of consciousness, Jerusalem the temple you clear with trust, and the mountain of the house the wild thoughts you tend with love. The path to mercy is not outside, but inside: a turning, a forgiving revision, a felt sense that the current moment is already safe in the presence of awareness. So what you feared becomes a field of potential peace, and the great evil you feared dissolves as you align your imagination with the truth of your I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and recall a current fear. Assume you are the I AM observing the scene; revise it by declaring within, Mercy now reigns; the future bends to my awareness. Then breathe and feel the peaceful shift as if it is already real.