Inner Zion Restoration

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, the verse is not about a distant city but your inner state. Zion's gates are threshold beliefs; the solemn feasts represent communion with the I AM, the awareness you call God. When you 'are desolate'—when your inner feast is missing—it's because your thoughts have wandered from the present I AM to fear, guilt, or future worry. The adversaries prosper in your psyche, not as external powers, but as the momentum of wrong conclusions about yourself. The LORD's affliction is not punishment from a judge but the inevitable result of believing separation from your own wholeness. The 'children' carried away symbolize surrendered aspects of yourself—creativity, joy, clarity—taken by the illusion of lack. The princes become like harts without pasture; your leadership is without spiritual nourishment when you doubt, run, or chase shadows. Yet this is not permanent. In the quiet within, the memory of the feast remains. Return to the I AM; revise the story; feel that you are already whole and present.