Neville Goddard on Judges 13:15-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 13 in context

Scripture Focus

15And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

16And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

17And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

18And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

19So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

20For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

Judges 13:15-20

Biblical Context

Manoah and his wife prepare a kid with a meat offering to the LORD. The angel of the LORD speaks and ascends in the flame, and they fall on their faces in awe.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Judges passage, the event is not 'out there' but in here: the angel of the LORD is a state of consciousness, the presence you can wake up to. Manoah and his wife offer a burnt offering to the LORD, and the act is the cycle of surrender to the I AM. When the flame ascends, the vision clarifies: you are witnessing the manifestation of your inner divine identity—the secret name of your being, the true you that cannot be named by the small self. The insistence on detaining the messenger reveals the ego's fear of release; yet the messenger insists the offering must be given to the LORD, not eaten by the self. The rising flame is the ignition of awareness, the moment when the outer world seems to recede and the inner Lord reveals itself. So, the promise and prophecy come alive as you align your acts of worship with the I AM, trusting that imagination is the instrument through which God manifests in your life.

Practice This Now

Practice this now: in quiet awareness, assume you are the I AM and offer a symbolic sacrifice to the LORD within. Feel the fire of consciousness rise and the presence of guidance ascending.