Neville Goddard on Joel 1:4-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joel 1 in context

Scripture Focus

4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Joel 1:4-7

Biblical Context

Joel 1:4-7 portrays successive stages of ruin—pestilence devouring the crops—followed by a wake-up call to the people to turn from excess and heed the coming judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, and caterpillar not as insects but as stages of consciousness chewing away at your sense of self. What remains when you believe 'I am not enough' is eroded until your inner garden—your vine and fig tree—appears bare. The wake-up call to drunkards and the cutting off of new wine signals that you have trusted sensations and stories outside your being more than the inner life. A nation upon my land with teeth like a lion is the tumult of aggressive thoughts within your own mind asserting control over your experience. Yet this is not punishment but a cue to turn inward and claim the I AM as the source and your true gardener. Restore comes not by changing outward circumstances but by shifting the inner weather: align with the presence of God within, imagine the vines flourishing, and feel the reality of wholeness now. When you revise belief and dwell in the assumption of fullness, the ruin of the old order yields to new growth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and affirm, 'I am the I AM, here and now; this moment holds abundance.' Feel the inner garden sprout as you revise lack into fullness.