Inner Ambush, Inner Flame

Judges 20:36-38 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Judges 20 in context

Scripture Focus

36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
37And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
Judges 20:36-38

Biblical Context

Israel uses a hidden ambush against Gibeah and confirms victory with a planned sign involving smoke and flame.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the city is your old self, clinging to a pattern you call Benjamin. The 'liars in wait' are the stubborn beliefs you have trusted to run your life; they rush when you refuse to revise. The ambush is not vengeance but a turning of attention: when you relax old grip and consent to a new state, the old order is struck down by the power of consciousness. The appointed sign—the great flame and the rising smoke—symbolizes revelation in imagination: once you choose a different state strongly enough, the visible world must reflect it. Do not seek outside deliverance; the I AM inside, the awareness that you are, does the execution of the new order. Your providence is present as you hold the intention and feel it real, living as if the victory has already occurred. It is judgment only in the sense that you judge and release the old self; righteousness appears wherever you insist that you are the living, thinking being you desire to be.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume you are already the victorious state; feel it as real now, and picture the flame rising in your inner city as proof that your assumption has been fulfilled.

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