Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 35:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 35 in context

Scripture Focus

8Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

10But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Jeremiah 35:8-10

Biblical Context

Thus the Rechabites declare they have obeyed Jonadab's commands. They abstain from wine, refrain from building houses, and live in tents, obeying all he commanded.

Neville's Inner Vision

The verse is not about outward custom but about a state of consciousness that chooses loyalty to a higher command. Jonadab becomes the inner principle represented in memory, a vow kept in imagination. The prohibition on wine and the refusal to settle in fixed houses symbolize a stable inner stance: a mind that is flexible, untempted by surface comforts, because it is anchored in obedience to the inner law. Their tents point to a mobile stillness, a preparedness to depart from the comfortable for the sake of fidelity to the charge they accepted. In your life, you can mirror this by assuming you have already kept the inner charge—feeling the loyalty as a present fact, not a future possibility. When you imagine yourself acting in accord with that decree, your attention shifts away from craving and fear toward the steadiness of purpose. The external forms (wine, houses, fields) lose power as the I AM asserts its covenant within you. Practice this by revising your sense of self until you can feel the vow as your current reality.