Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 4:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:6-7

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 4:6-7 warns of coming judgment from the north and the desolation of cities; in plain sense, it forecasts exile and the destruction to come. It presents a moral forecast wrapped in political imagery.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah’s warning is not about geography; it is a map of your inner weather. 'Evil from the north' arises as a persistent thought-form when you disengage from your true I AM, and the 'great destruction' follows as the collapse of old identities. The 'lion' is the loud roar of fear breaking into your awareness, a signal that you are mistaking appearance for reality. As long as you identify with that fear, your land is desolate and your cities lie waste—old patterns recede because you have not yet furnished your mind with the new state. To interpret this in Neville's practice, set your inner standard toward Zion and refuse to entertain anything less than the truth of your I AM presence. Assume the feeling of your desired state, revise the scene in imagination, and feel it real now. The destroyer comes to clear away what is not you, so you awaken to the promise of the inner kingdom. When you embrace the new self, the outer world reconstitutes itself as Zion's land.