Inner Ruler to Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the two names as states of consciousness. Jephthah, the judge who ruled Israel for six years, represents a ruling mind formed by struggle, daring, and outward authority. When he dies and is buried in the cities of Gilead, the inner city becomes a place of integration, the old ruling condition placed into the ground of your inner country. After this inner death, Ibzan of Bethlehem rises to judge Israel. Bethlehem the house of bread signals a fresh inner nourishment, a new seed of awareness arising from the quiet center of I AM within you. This is not two different people but two inner attitudes succeeding one another under the same divine government. The Kingdom of God is not a distant throne but an ordering of consciousness around love, loyalty to the I AM, and fidelity to inner truth. You are called to recognize when one inner ruler ends and another begins, honoring the transition as a natural expression of growing faith. The present moment is always the birth of a new leadership within you.