Neville Goddard on Joshua 2:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 2 in context

Scripture Focus

1And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

2And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.

3And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.

Joshua 2:1-3

Biblical Context

Joshua sends two spies to view the land of Jericho; Rahab hides them, and the king of Jericho learns of their presence.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's discipline, the two spies are not men moving across a map but states of consciousness moving within you. Joshua's command to spy secretly is the moment your I AM invites a quiet inspection of your surroundings from the position of authority within. Jericho represents a fixed outer condition—the sturdy walls of belief that seem solid until you revise them from the inside. Rahab's house becomes the receptive steadiness of imagination—an inner shelter where new assumptions can lodge without external interruption. The king's alarm is your mind's old self-objects reacting to the new witness within; yet in this drama, the decisive act is faithfulness: you trust the unseen guide within (the I AM) and obey the inner direction rather than the external fear. By learning to 'view the land' with calm discernment, you disarm the apparent danger and realize that the land is your own consciousness, ripe for transformation. The covenant loyalty is the unwavering alignment of your inner speaker with truth, not with the loud claims of the outer world.