Neville Goddard on Joel 3:11-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joel 3 in context

Scripture Focus

11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Joel 3:11-14

Biblical Context

Joel 3:11-14 speaks of gathering the nations for judgment and a harvest. In Neville's view, these nations are inner states gathering in the valley of decision.

Neville's Inner Vision

Joel 3:11-14 invites you to see the world as a stage where the inner 'nations' of thought are gathered for judgment and for a harvest. In the Neville Goddard frame, the valley of Jehoshaphat is not a geographical place but the breathing space of awareness where you call forth order from chaos. The call to assemble is a summons to bring every fragment of consciousness into the light of I AM. When you awaken, the 'heathen'—your resisting thoughts and fears—are awakened and drawn into the valley, where you sit in judgment not as a judge heaping punishment, but as the conscious I who decides where the energy of life shall flow. The harvest is ripe because you have not changed the world but your state of seeing; you press the 'sickle' by deciding that what you once believed as lacking is already realized in the mind you inhabit. Multitudes within you stand at the valley of decision, and the day of the LORD is your awareness choosing a new alignment.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you are the valley where every thought gathers. Revise one limiting belief into its opposite and feel the harvest as already yours.