Inner Lineage of Return
Matthew 1:12-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Matthew 1:12-13 traces a post-exile lineage, listing generations from Babylon forward to the birthline that culminates in Jesus. It signals that the inner history you carry can be renewed and restored from within.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewed through the I AM, these names are not distant persons but inner states that precede the birth of your desire. Babylon is the dream of separation; the begats are the successive births of awareness that prepare you to stand as king in your own inner temple. Jechonias, Salathiel, Zorobabel, Abiud, Eliakim, and Azor are your shifting dispositions—royal seeds that, when tended by imagination, bring forth the heir you seek. Each point in the lineage marks a moment you revise the story you have believed about yourself, until you awaken to the truth that you have always been the I AM, the parent of every form. The sequence from exile to return is a blueprint for spiritual development: you do not abandon your self-identity; you re-create it from within, layer by layer, until the outer event (the birth of Jesus) becomes the visible fruit of your inner state. Trust the line, for the Father-mind weaves your life through you, and each succession is a reminder that your world is a dream you have assumed and now revise into reality.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise: imagine stepping from exile into a bright inner temple, with the names as inner states you presently beget. Repeat, 'I AM the line of return; I birth my true self through imagination.'
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