Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 50:21-29 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 50 in context

Scripture Focus

21Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

25The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

26Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

28The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

29Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:21-29

Biblical Context

Jeremiah declares judgment on Babylon, urging destruction of its pride as the LORD's measure of justice. The text invites exile and return as the processes by which righteousness is restored.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 50:21-29 reads as a map of your inner terrain. Merathaim and Pekod stand for stubborn habits and proud thoughts that have ruled your mind. The battle sounds you hear are the stirring of new determinations your I AM has already implanted. The cry 'how is Babylon become a desolation' becomes an invitation to dismantle the old self, to see the hammer and snare as the tools of awakening rather than punishment. When the Lord says 'the armoury is opened,' you may hear your inner faculties—imagination, conscience, and steadfast purpose—standing ready to execute true justice upon false claims. Begin from the outermost edge of your mind; open the storehouses of limitation, cast them into heaps, and destroy what remains of them. Slay the bullocks of habit; the old identity is warned that its day is come. The voices of escape become witnesses in Zion, declaring the vengeance of your temple. Call together the archers against Babylon—bring your disciplined thoughts to bear on the old self—and recompense her according to her work by choosing the liberty that is already yours in God.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, assume you are the land of Zion within; imagine the archers and storehouses as your disciplined thoughts and beliefs, and declare now that you are the Lord's instrument of justice in this mind and body. Feel the inward victory as the old Babylon collapses, and dwell in that state for several minutes.