Inner Vision: Elijah and Resurrection

Matthew 17:9-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Matthew 17 in context

Scripture Focus

9And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
10And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
12But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
13Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Matthew 17:9-13

Biblical Context

Jesus directs the disciples to keep the vision private until the Son of Man is risen; they question Elijah's coming, and he answers that Elijah has already come in the person of John the Baptist.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the mountain is a state of consciousness, and the vision is an inner birth that changes what you accept as real. The command to tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man is risen means the event has already occurred in the sanctuary of your awareness; the rising is not an empire of facts but a conversion of your I AM. Elijah’s coming is not a distant event but the inner impulse that returns order and restores all things by cleansing your belief. When Jesus says Elijah has come already and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed, he points you to your John the Baptist within—the inner purifier who prepares your heart for transformation. The disciples’ realization that he spoke of John shows this passage is about inner revision, not chronology. Suffering and trials become the crucible through which the old you yields to a risen self; the Son of Man rises as your present awareness expands. You are invited to recognize and dwell in that risen consciousness, which already completed the work within you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in stillness and imagine, 'I am the risen Son of Man in consciousness,' feeling it as real. Then revise a limiting belief to align with that risen self and carry that new sense into today.

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