Neville Goddard on Judges 16:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 16 in context

Scripture Focus

2And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

3And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

Judges 16:2-3

Biblical Context

In Judges 16:2-3, the Gazites trap Samson at the city gate, but at midnight he rises, tears away the gate and posts, and carries them away up a hill.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theatre, Samson is not a man of flesh but the I AM awakening to itself. The Gazites are your fear-born thoughts circling the gate of consciousness, insisting on morning to kill the self you think you are. Midnight is the moment of stillness when you stop agreeing with the story and choose to act from awareness. The doors of the gate and the posts symbolize the limiting beliefs you have made real through attention; by a single decisive act you lift them off the psyche and carry them up to a hill before Hebron—the higher vantage of understanding. This is deliverance not by battering forces from without, but by the inner act of imagination and faith: you align with the truth that you are the I AM, capable of removing every barrier in your own mind. In that moment, liberation is accomplished in consciousness, and the outer city gates become mere symbols of past fear, now moved to a higher field of awareness.

Practice This Now

Practice: close your eyes and assume you are the I AM lifting your inner gates. Visualize carrying the doors and posts up a hill of awareness, and feel the fear dissolve in the light of morning.