Inner Priests, Silent Stocks

Jeremiah 29:25-26 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Jeremiah 29 in context

Scripture Focus

25Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
Jeremiah 29:25-26

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 29:25-26 condemns leaders who claim to be priests and use that authority to imprison anyone who speaks as a prophet; it exposes the misuse of spiritual power.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this passage the letters and decrees are your interior thoughts broadcast to every corner of your mind; Jerusalem is the field of your present consciousness, and the priests and prophets are the living movements of awareness that arise within you. When you take the mantle of priesthood and declare yourself above others, you are not blessing truth but attempting to imprison the voice that unsettles your fixed script. To judge a prophet as mad is to judge a part of yourself that longs to break ritual boundaries and renew meaning. This is the mind's knee-jerk demand for control, the impulse to silence genuine imagination rather than heed its guidance. Neville would have you see that God, the I AM, is not found in external titles but in the living act of aware presence that permits every inner voice to speak. The remedy is inner revision: affirm that you are the rightful temple-keeper, and that every inner messenger has a place in your wholeness. When you let imagination move freely, you awaken the reality you seek, and you stop imprisoning your own truth.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the I AM, the rightful priest of your temple. Revise any decree that would imprison an inner prophet into a decree of welcome, and feel it real as you breathe.

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