Neville Goddard on Jonah 3:4-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 3 in context

Scripture Focus

4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Jonah 3:4-8

Biblical Context

Jonah's warning leads Nineveh to fast, repent, and turn from violence; the king's decree spreads the change from the top to the people, illustrating collective repentance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In you, Nineveh awakens as a city of beliefs and habits. The forty days are the stretch of attention required for a new assumption. Believing God means trusting the I AM within, not outer signs. The fast and sackcloth symbolize starving old appetites and humbling the ego, while the king's removing robes signals surrender to a higher order. The decree that none shall eat or drink becomes a disciplined attention that nourishes the new state. Crying unto God is your inner focus rising in prayer, a turning away from the old ways that harm you and from violence in thought. This narrative is an inner conversion: when you align with the believing self, your outer world rearranges to reflect that inner alignment. The city becomes a temple where imagination births reality, proving that turning within is all that is required to alter appearances without.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner state of Nineveh now: accept a specific future for yourself by saying, 'I turn from my old patterns and enter a new life,' and feel that decisive shift as you inhale.