Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 48:40-42 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 48 in context

Scripture Focus

40For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

Jeremiah 48:40-42

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 48:40-42 describes Moab’s destruction: an eagle sweeps over the land, its strongholds are surprised, and the mighty tremble like a woman in labor. The destruction comes because Moab exalted itself against the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inward parable, Moab represents a self-image you have magnified against the I AM. The eagle is the swift, penetrating attention of awareness that hovers and lays its wings over the old pride, not to punish you but to reveal what has stiffened your heart from truth. When the strongholds are surprised and the mighty hearts shrink, know that this is the moment when your former state cannot endure the light of consciousness. The pangs of labor you feel are not punishment; they are the birth-pains of a new self that does not boast before God but rests in the I AM that you are. The Lord’s word that Moab shall be destroyed describes a shift of identity: the persona that magnified itself against the LORD dissolves, making room for a higher alignment and a truer purpose. Embrace the wipe-clean period as grace, an inner judgment that dissolves illusion, leaving you free to inhabit a truer sovereignty within. Your imagination, rightly directed, is the instrument by which this demolition becomes creation.

Practice This Now

Imaginatively assume: I am the I AM that flies over my inner Moab, dissolving pride by its sweep. In this moment, feel the old self dissolving and a new, truer self awakening within me.