Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 27:2-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 27 in context

Scripture Focus

2Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

3And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

4And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

5I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

6And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

8And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Jeremiah 27:2-8

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 27:2-8 speaks of binding yokes and sending them to foreign kings, declaring that lands are in Nebuchadnezzar's hand. Those who resist the yoke invite punishment from the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

All that you see in the outward world is a stage for your inner state. When the text speaks of bonds and yokes upon the neck, it points not to a past event but to a present posture of consciousness you have agreed with. God declares that the earth and its inhabitants are in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, my servant; in Neville's terms, Nebuchadnezzar is the outer ruler that your mind has domesticized as the ruler of your life. The apparent kingdoms—the nations, the kings, the famine—are projections of your current assumption about lack, control, and limitation. You are not at the mercy of these powers; you are the I AM within, the creator of the stage. The moment you revise your inner state—assume I am free, I reign, this world serves my will—the yoke loses its grip. The servant can become a tool of your own awakening. Through inner revision, you discover that the “yoke” was only a signal to peer within and claim your dominion. Your outer world will move to reflect your new awareness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and suppose the I AM is governing your life; feel the weight of the old yoke dissolve as you declare, 'I am the ruler of this world, and it serves my will.'