Neville Goddard on Judges 3:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 3 in context

Scripture Focus

5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Judges 3:5-7

Biblical Context

The Israelites settled among the Canaanites, married into their families, and began to worship the neighboring gods. In doing so, they forgot the LORD and fell into Baal and grove worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 3:5-7 speaks not of distant lands but of your inner geography. The Canaanites and others symbolize states of consciousness you harbor when you forget who you are. To dwell among them is to permit several voices to rule your heart; taking daughters to wives and giving them to your sons is the inner pledge of attention to rival gods—desires, security idols, and outward show. Serving their gods is the habitual worship of fear and lack, an inner act of forgetting the LORD your God, a momentary misalignment where you imagine you are defined by limited forms. Yet the truth abides: the I AM remains, even when you wander. The path back is simple: return to the center, re-affirm the I AM as your sole allegiance, and watch as the other gods lose their hold. Your covenant loyalty awakens when you refuse to let external images govern your inner temple.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the state of the I AM; declare, I am one with God, I dwell in covenant loyalty. Then visualize your mind as a bright temple where no foreign god can enter.