Neville Goddard on Job 39:23-25 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 39 in context

Scripture Focus

23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Job 39:23-25

Biblical Context

Job 39:23-25 pictures a war-horse reacting to battle signs—trumpets, spears, and shouts. Yet the horse treats the sounds as distant, swallowed by its own fierce inner movement.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the quiver, spear, and shield not as instruments 'out there' but as pictures your mind has accepted as real. The horse’s fierce swallowing of the ground and its rage are the vibrations of a mind clinging to old fear, not a fixed fact. When it says the trumpet’s sound is distant or mocks the call, it reveals how you have allowed outer sounds to seem independent of your inner state. The truth Neville teaches is that God is I AM, and imagination makes the world. If you would see the battlefield fade, you must awaken to the fact that you are the dreamer who hears the trumpet. The trumpets and shouts are only signs of a state you can revise by choosing a new feeling and a new assumption about yourself. In the Kingdom of God, the prophecy is fulfilled not by altering outer events but by becoming the sovereign I AM here and now, and letting your inner state radiate outward as reality. Trust and act from that awareness; the distant thunder grows silent as you realize you are the one who commands it.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled now; declare internally, 'I AM,' and revise the scene so the trumpet marks inner victory rather than outer threat. Feel the victory in your chest as if already done.