Neville Goddard on Joel 1:13-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joel 1 in context

Scripture Focus

13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.

15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Joel 1:13-20

Biblical Context

Priests and people are urged to lament and fast, gathering in the house of their God to cry out. The text declares that the day of the Lord is near, bringing judgment and scarcity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the outward lamentations and drought, you are gazing into your own state of consciousness. The withholding of meat offerings and drink offerings signals a belief that sustenance flows from without, not from the I AM that you truly are. The command to sanctify a fast and to assemble is not a punitive ritual, but a turning of attention inward, an invitation to the temple of awareness where the true supply resides. When you hear that the day of the LORD is at hand, you are hearing the moment when you remember you are always God in skin—awareness itself choosing to awaken. The rottenness of seed and desolation of barns symbolize transient appearances; your inner farmer can revise those appearances by choosing to identify with Infinite Presence, which nourishes from within. As you cry unto the Lord, you align with the inner counsel that sustains all life. The fires and rivers drying up are calls to reframe circumstance as a signal to re-collect your attention back to the I AM. In that re-collection, energy flows and life returns to your interior fields.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: I am the Lord of my inner temple. In the next moment, gather your inner faculties—faith, courage, desire—into the altar of awareness and feel the present abundance as real.