Neville Goddard on Joshua 5:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 5 in context

Scripture Focus

6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:6

Biblical Context

The verse shows the people wandered forty years because they did not heed the LORD's voice, keeping them from the promised land. The promised land is a state of inner alignment that can be entered when consciousness turns to inner guidance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Forty years here are not time but a state of mind—the moment you resist the inner word that names you I AM. The 'men of war' are your strong impulses tied to doubt, wandering because you refuse to hear within. When you align with the LORD's voice in consciousness, the land of milk and honey is not future payoff but your present stage of being. The LORD's oath is kept or broken by your inner certainty; God is the I AM speaking from within, not a distant decree. Your promised land is the harmony of thought, feeling, and deed—an inner abundance you inhabit before it appears in form. To reclaim it, you revise your sense of self until it matches freedom, prosperity, and divine guidance. The decisive act is a shift in consciousness: listen to the inner voice, assume its reality, and dwell there. Then the wilderness dissolves and the land manifests in your life as lived experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the inner decree now; revise doubt by declaring I AM, and right now enter the land of milk and honey. Feel the reality in your chest and walk as one who already possesses.