Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 36:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

5And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

6Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

7It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

Jeremiah 36:5-7

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 36:5-7 shows Jeremiah saying he is shut up and directing Baruch to read the LORD’s words in the temple. He invites the people to turn from their evil ways through supplication.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard’s language, the phrase I am shut up is a state of consciousness, not a physical barrier. Jeremiah’s instruction to Baruch to read the roll in the LORD’s house on a fasting day becomes an inner practice: summon your inner scribe, write the divine words from your I AM, and speak them within the temple of your own mind until they resonate as reality. The roll represents your mental script—the precise decree you imprint on your world by imagining it as already true. When those words are heard by the inner ears of the self, they awaken a turning—the inner petition that seeks to leave old ways behind and align with a new state of consciousness. The great anger spoken of is the resistance of the old self to the new truth; the antidote is a disciplined revision: assume the truth of your inner words, feel them as real now, and let the imagined state displace the former conditions. This is prophecy as Neville teaches: imagination creates reality by sustaining a consistent inner decree until it becomes outer life.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, write a single inner decree you wish to inhabit (for example, 'I am no longer shut up'), then read it aloud in your mind as if Baruch were delivering it in the temple. Feel the truth until it saturates your consciousness.