Inner Escape of the King

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 39:4 offers more than a historical note; it is a parable of the ego’s flight from responsibility. The city stands for your inner state, the place where awareness keeps watch. Zedekiah, the outward king, embodies the sense of personal authority that believes it must flee when confronted by truth. The night flight is fear-thought, slipping through the garden of self-pleasures and the gate between the two walls—those little thresholds where you pretend you can escape consequences. The plain beyond is the visible world where appearances seem to prevail, but the true ruler lies within your I AM. When you identify with that I AM, you discover you cannot be overthrown by outer conditions, for the throne endures wherever consciousness is awake. The exile and return motif indicates that you may temporarily dwell in a belief that you’ve left your kingdom, yet you can always return to the internal sovereignty by an act of revision and faith. The message is to refuse the ego’s flight and to rest in the certainty that you are the I AM sovereign of this inner city. Judgment arises as you notice a belief, not as a verdict on your essential being.