Neville Goddard on Numbers 14:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 14 in context

Scripture Focus

5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

Numbers 14:5-9

Biblical Context

Moses and Aaron fall before the assembly; Joshua and Caleb declare the land is good and urge that if the LORD delights in them, He will bring them in. They warn not to rebel or fear, for the LORD is with them.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this scene is a teaching of inner states. The assembly is the crowd of your present beliefs; Moses and Aaron kneeling are your reverent, disciplined consciousness; Joshua and Caleb are the courageous imagination that has surveyed the land of your desires and declares it good. The land is not a place; it is a state of consciousness—the promised abundance you now claim in the I AM that you are. When you hear, 'If the LORD delight in us,' you are declaring that your inner master, God within, takes pleasure in your present state and thus brings you into fulfillment. Their verdict that the land floweth with milk and honey becomes your inner sensation of sweetness and plenty, not a far-off promise. The warning 'fear not' and 'their defense is departed' means the imagined obstacles lose their power as soon as you recognise the LORD is with you—your awareness, your constant companion. Fear is simply a temporary supposition; fidelity to your I AM makes every obstacle merely bread for you to chew and digest into strength.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and imagine the land as a vivid state of consciousness already yours. Repeat, 'The LORD delights in me; I am led into this land; I fear not,' and feel the abundance flowing through every sense.