Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 28:1 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 28 in context

Scripture Focus

1And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 28:1

Biblical Context

Hananiah, a prophet from Gibeon, spoke in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here in Jeremiah 28:1 the outer scene—Hananiah's public oracle in the LORD's house before the priests and the people—becomes an inner drama of mind. The house of the LORD is the sanctuary of your awareness; the audience and the priesthood are the structures of belief that attend a thought. Jeremiah stands as the receptive self, but his receptivity is only a state of consciousness that can be swayed by the energy of a persuasive word. The prophet Hananiah, as an inner voice, represents a prevailing belief or desire within you: a forecast of blessing or punishment shaped by fear or hope. The crucial move is to recognize that all prophetic words, whether comforting or alarming, reveal your current level of awareness. The true authority is not the external speaker but the I AM that hears and imagines. When you identify with the I AM, you can revise any external decree by assuming a higher statement of being and feeling the truth of it as now. Your present reality follows from the inner state you maintain and imagine.