Inner Covenant Lineage
Matthew 1:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Matthew 1:5 traces a lineage: Salmon begat Boaz through Rahab, Boaz begat Obed through Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse. It highlights Rahab and Ruth as Gentile matriarchs, illustrating covenant loyalty and Providence guiding family lineages.
Neville's Inner Vision
Read as a state of consciousness, the genealogy teaches that the names Salmon, Boaz, Obed, and Jesse are not distant persons but stages in your own awareness. Rahab and Ruth, though Gentiles by birth, symbolize covenant loyalty—an inclusivity that your inner life honors when you align with the higher law. When you let 'begat' denote inner causation, Providence becomes your present experience, not a future event. The sequence moves through you: Salmon as steadfast faith, Boaz as strength joined with kindness, Obed as surrender to divine order, Jesse as the root birthing the next season. This is your inner lineage: a continuous procession of life responding to your conscious assumption. The guaranteed result is that your outer world will reflect the fidelity of your inner covenant. Answered prayer becomes normality when you recognize the I AM guiding this line within you right now.
Practice This Now
Stand quietly, assume: I am the I AM, and this lineage—Rahab, Ruth, Boaz, Obed, Jesse—streams through my life now; feel that covenant loyalty as real in my present experience.
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