Neville Goddard on Judges 18:30-31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 18 in context

Scripture Focus

30And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

31And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Judges 18:30-31

Biblical Context

Judges 18:30-31 describes the tribe of Dan setting up Micah's graven image and Jonathan and his sons serving as priests, maintaining counterfeit worship near Shiloh. The passage highlights a departure from true worship by external symbols and self-made spiritual authority.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 18:30-31 presents a state of consciousness where a tribe seeks spiritual authority outside the one true sanctuary. The 'graven image' is not a stone figure alone but a fixed idea, a mental image the mind clings to for security. The appointment of Jonathan and his sons as priests signals a self-authored priesthood—inner opinions posing as sacred order—while the house of God remains in Shiloh, yet ignored by the Danite mind. This is you when you trust an external symbol—memory, doctrine, habit—to validate your worth instead of letting the I AM, your pure awareness, serve as priest and sanctuary. The captivity spoken of is not a historical exile but the moment you forget that imagination is the instrument by which you rule your life; you live under the image you hold as true. The remedy is simple: refuse the outward priesthood and revise to the spirit of true worship within. Return to the inner temple, acknowledge that the I AM is the altar, and let imagination renew the inner sanctuary, so the external idol loses its power.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the priest of your inner sanctuary; revise any outward idol by declaring 'I AM' as your authority. Feel the I AM filling the temple until the image dissolves and your life aligns with inner worship.