Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 52:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 52 in context

Scripture Focus

7Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52:7-8

Biblical Context

The city is broken and the warriors flee by night; Zedekiah is overtaken as the army is scattered.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the verses become a map of inner life. The city represents your mind in crisis; the two walls and the gate by the king's garden are the thresholds of awareness through which imagination passes. When the Chaldeans encircle the city, it is not a historic army but the pressure of beliefs and identifications you have accepted as real. The night flight signifies a habitual attempt to escape an unwanted state by slipping through old doors of perception. Yet in Neville style, the real change is not out there but within: you as I AM witness the scene and choose to revise it by assuming the end. The pursuit of the king reveals how segments of self cling to a separate ruler, but the scattering of the army marks the loosening of those old self images as a new state is held intact in awareness. Practice the inner shift: refuse to narrate another defeat, and dwell in the feeling of the fulfilled desire as already done. When you stand in that inner king's plains, the external events align with your inner state.