Neville Goddard on Judges 13:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 13 in context

Scripture Focus

4Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

5For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

Judges 13:4-6

Biblical Context

Judges 13:4-6 speaks of a future Nazarite who must abstain from wine and unclean foods, with hair kept uncut, because he will be dedicated to God from the womb and will begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this account the unborn vow is not an external event but a state of consciousness you can inhabit now. The command to abstain from wine and unclean food is a summons to withdraw from outward appetite and to consecrate the inner soil where images are born. The hair’s uncut status points to keeping sacred the idea in your imagination from the womb of your being. The child who shall deliver Israel represents a breakthrough of liberty already conceived in mind, not a newborn in a cradle. The 'man of God' who terrifies the mother is your own higher awareness, your I AM, appearing as messenger to announce a decree that is already true in your inner realm. Your work is to assume the feeling of that decree, to revise any contrary belief, and to let the image of deliverance take form within you. Do not seek proof in the outer world; feel the inward reality as now present, and the outer signs follow as a natural expression of that inner state.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare 'I AM separated unto the one Life.' Then imagine a divine visitor delivering the message of deliverance, and feel the inner state as already accomplished.