Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 40:15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 40 in context

Scripture Focus

15Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Jeremiah 40:15

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 40:15 records a covert proposal to kill Ishmael to prevent the gathering from scattering and the remnant from perishing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your mind reads this as a policy of the outward camp, but the spell is inward. Johanan's anxious plotting is a state of consciousness you confront in your own inner Mizpah: a fear that the unity of your being will be scattered by a threatening impulse. Ishmael stands not a person, but an abandoned tendency—the part of you that seems to whisper you must remove something to stay whole. Gedaliah, the governor within, embodies the ruler who would preserve the whole by force, yet the true preservation comes from recognizing the I AM—the one mind that remains unaffected by appearances. When you identify with the I AM, you see that no action in time can truly unsettle the essential remnant of awareness that you are. The impulse to slay becomes a symbolic revision: you do not suppress or annihilate thoughts, you reassign their meaning and empower the wholeness that already stands.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and declare, 'I am the I AM; there is one remnant of awareness that remains intact regardless of thoughts.' Then revise the fear by feeling the future as present in this moment.