Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 36:28-32 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

28Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

29And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

30Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

31And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

32Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

Jeremiah 36:28-32

Biblical Context

Jeremiah is told to write a new scroll with all the words from the first one after Jehoiakim burned it. He proclaims that the king will not sit on the throne of David, and punishment will come; then Jeremiah has Baruch write many additional words.

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through the Neville Goddard lens, this chapter is a depiction of the living consciousness rewriting its own history. The burnt first roll represents a worn script of limitation you have unknowingly believed—doom for the land, extinction of your inner king. The command to Take thee again another roll and write in it all the former words is a call to your I AM in the present moment: do not change the facts, change the state. The throne of David is not a political seat but your inner sovereignty of awareness. When the text says He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, it reveals a state of consciousness that believes it cannot rule its own world. Yet the Lord promises consequences for following that old belief, inviting you to see the necessity of revising your mental pattern. The act of Jeremiah and Baruch writing again—adding many like words—shows the expansion that follows faithful revision. Your inner scribe records a higher law that cannot be erased by circumstance, and the living Word endures, multiplying as you persist in the new roll of Fortune through imagination.

Practice This Now

Take a moment to write a new mental roll in your imagination and declare, 'I am the ruler of my destiny,' and feel the page in your hand as the old fear dissolves. Feel it real in the now.