Captain at Jericho: Inner Warfare

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the scene names a crucial inner question: who commands this sword? In Neville’s language, the drawn weapon is a symbol of your current stance of consciousness. Joshua’s eyes fix on an other standing opposite with power in hand, and the question, 'Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?' is really a test of alignment. If you answer from old beliefs, you keep your sense of separation; if you answer from the I AM, you invite the Captain of the Lord’s army—your own unconditioned awareness—to stand with you. The presence is not a rival to your battles but the very faculty of discernment and victory within you. When you imagine the sword in the messenger’s hand, you rehearse the moment you accept that nothing opposes your assumed identity. The inner captain does not choose sides against you; it confirms the reality you have already chosen in consciousness. Therefore the conflict dissolves as you persist in the awareness that you and the Lord are one.