Neville Goddard on Joshua 10:19-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 10 in context

Scripture Focus

19And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.

20And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

Joshua 10:19-20

Biblical Context

The passage commands relentless pursuit of inner enemies until they are defeated, followed by rest within fortified inner cities.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the I AM that you are, the command to pursue is a command to pursue your own eroding states—fear, doubt, and the lack that have kept your life in thrall. The hindmost is the last vestige of resistance, that stubborn thought or habit you still allow to govern your mood. When the verse says the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand, hear it as the inner decree: God is awareness, and you hold the authority to vanquish every thought that would enter your mental city and claim dominion there. There is no external victory outside consciousness; the great slaughter represents shedding the old identity as you identify with the new state you have imagined. As you press forward, do not abandon compassion, but do not permit hesitation to re-enter your mind. When the battle ends, the rest and fenced cities become your steady state of Being—guarded by your unwavering I AM, a city of peace ready to receive the life you have deliberate imagined.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and assume the feeling, 'I AM victorious over all inner enemies.' Then see the hindmost fear dissolve and you enter the fenced city of rest, fully present as the observer of your new state.