Neville Goddard on Nahum 1:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nahum 1 in context

Scripture Focus

4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Nahum 1:4-6

Biblical Context

Nahum 1:4-6 presents God's overwhelming presence moving through seas, rivers, mountains, and earth. It declares that nothing can stand before divine indignation.

Neville's Inner Vision

I interpret Nahum’s storm as the whisper of the I AM moving through my consciousness. The sea and rivers are not distant forces but the currents of thought and feeling I have let run unchecked; when I rebuke them with a quiet, assured decree, they dry up and vanish. The mountains quake and the hills melt not as a geographic catastrophe but as fear and limitation collapsing before the undeniable fact that I am the I AM, the living presence that cannot be displaced. The earth is burned at his presence because the entire landscape of my mind is revealed by pure awareness, and anything untrue is consumed by the fire of truth. Who can stand before this indignation? I turn the question inward: who in me will persist in a belief that denies the I AM that I am? The rocks thrown down are old patterns, judgments, and identifications that no longer serve harmony, shattered by the relentless heat of consciousness that I alone invoke and sustain.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume the feeling that I AM is sovereign over every thought and emotion; revise fear as already dissolved by that presence, and feel it real now. Then watch the imagined storm settle, the sea dry, and the rocks crumble, proof of inner authority.