Inner Encampment, Inner Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 15:9 speaks of Philistines occupying Judah at Lehi, a scene of outer threat. Yet, in the Neville Goddard key, the 'Philistines' are not other people but states of consciousness that have taken a position in your inner terrain. Judah represents your established center—your crown, your I AM awareness—while Lehi symbolizes the heart's threshold where decisions are made. When the mind yields to a prolonged encampment of fear, doubt, or lack, you feel the pressure of a siege. The 'going up and pitching' is the inner movement of persistent thought, the mind rehearsing harm until you start to identify with the threatened self. The script invites you to remember the Kingdom of God is already inside; it isn't a distant deliverer but the I AM that watches the siege without surrender. Endurance means you refuse to concede to the intruders; you revise the scene inwardly by an assumption of eternal safety, a confident claim of your Ruler within. The 'Exile & Return' shows that even temporary outer occurrences bend before your inner decision.