Neville Goddard on Judges 3:23-25 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 3 in context

Scripture Focus

23Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

24When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

25And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

Judges 3:23-25

Biblical Context

Ehud exits, locks the parlour, and the scene ends with the doors shut; the servants wait and later discover the ruler dead. On a deeper level, it marks the death of an old consciousness and the birth of a liberated inner state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 3:23-25 is a map of inner states, not a history. Ehud is the decisive I AM within me, the will that acts from quiet certainty. The locked parlour is my mind when I refuse to let fear or habit define me; the doors are closed so the outer world cannot reach the inner truth. The servants who remain outside are my thoughts, appearances, and conditions that judge from without, claiming he ‘covers his feet’ in some idle state. Yet the true deliverance is accomplished inwardly: the old self, the king in the parlour, dies; the room holds its silence and the inner sovereign remains. When I recognize that this death is the birth of a new consciousness, the doors are no longer a prison but a threshold. The restoration is not achieved by others opening doors but by me opening to the realization that I am the I AM and the kingdom is within. Such awakening is salvation and redemption: a shift in state that makes liberation my natural condition.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that the I AM is king of your mind. Close the doors to fear, and in your imagination witness the old self die, then feel the inner sovereignty rise as the room is opened to peace.