Neville Goddard on Judges 17:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 17 in context

Scripture Focus

3And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

4Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:3-4

Biblical Context

Judges 17:3-4 shows a vow dedicated to the LORD that ends up funding a graven image in Micah's house, illustrating how outward devotion can mask inner idolatry.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 17:3-4 is not about coin and idol as facts, but about your states of consciousness. The silver you restore to your mother is energy you think you own; the mother's vow to dedicate it to the LORD is an agreement you have made in the mind to express God in a particular form. The graven image and molten image are fixed pictures you entertain about how God must be, how worship should look, and what you owe to the divine. They are not in a temple; they are in your inner Micah, where you nurse an idea of God as distant or controllable. The moment you cling to such forms, living awareness is displaced by a picture. The inner healing is to reverse the assumption: the I AM is both source and end; there is no other image to build. When you revise the inner image to the living God within, the idol dissolves, and the house of your consciousness becomes a temple of true worship—holiness and obedience arising from awareness, not ritual, not external form.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of the I AM now. State to yourself: I am the LORD of my house; I replace every idol with the living presence. Sit in silence and feel that presence filling the space.