Day of Inner Spoiling
Jeremiah 47:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 47 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage foretells a day when external powers and alliances are stripped away, leaving the Philistines exposed and the helpers cut off. It signals hardship but also a summons to examine inner loyalties and the consequences of continued self-imposed scarcity.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of the day not as a future insult to a nation's borders, but as a turning of your inner weather. The Philistines are not people; they are manner of thought that spoil your ease—fears, lack, and the old tendency to seek wealth, approval, or control as the life that sustains you. When the verse speaks of cutting off every helper that remains, it is the interior witness awakening to the truth that your real sustentation comes from the I AM, not from the outer alliance you have counted on. The 'remnant of Caphtor' speaks to the last seed of identity you cling to, the self that says 'I am defined by lack' or 'I am dependent on others.' The cry, 'how long wilt thou cut thyself?' invites you to stop the self-inflicted wound of separation and to let the mind return to its rightful throne—the awareness that God is not out there granting or withholding, but within you, the steadfast I AM. In that awakening, the day of spoil becomes a purification, and the inner spoiling reveals the abundance that was always present.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise the scene as your own inward shift. Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: 'I am the I AM, and all provision is already within me,' and let that awareness flood your chest until the old sense of lack dissolves.
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