Inner Victory at Karkor

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 8:10-12 is not a history lesson alone; it is a map of consciousness. The fifteen thousand and the hundred twenty thousand are inner dispositions—the fears, stubborn habits, and stories of lack that seem to rule the mind. Zebah and Zalmunna are the two kings of limitation that sit on the throne of your thoughts; their retreat signals the rise of the I AM, the awakened self, in you. Gideon represents that awakened sense of I AM moving through your mental terrain, even as the outer images appear secure. He goes by the way of tents on the east—the place where imagined camps are built in imagination—and yet the host is only secure when you consent to it. When you persist in the assumption of victory, the 'enemy' dissolves and the entire host is discomfited. The deliverance is inward, and the outer conquest merely confirms what you already know in consciousness: you are the I AM, awake, and all apparent armies yield to that light.