Neville Goddard on Numbers 20:14-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 20 in context

Scripture Focus

14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

16And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:

Numbers 20:14-16

Biblical Context

Moses sends messengers to Edom, recounting Israel’s past oppression in Egypt; the people remind Edom that when they cried to the LORD, He heard and delivered them.

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 20:14–16 becomes a map of inner states. The king of Edom stands for a stubborn habit of mind, a boundary you meet inside as you seek passage to liberty. When the messenger says, 'Thus saith thy brother Israel,' the voice is your own I AM affirming unity with the whole of consciousness—your true self calling for deliverance, not a tribal favor. The reference to Egypt and the long sojourn there is not history, but the dream of limitation you once believed and now begin to outgrow. When you cry unto the LORD and He hears, that is the moment imagination awakens your inner guidance—the angel that leads you out of imagined bondage. The city of Kadesh at the outer border marks your present vantage point: you are on the edge of a new region of mind, where old conditions no longer bind you. The deliverance of old is already accomplished within, waiting for your assumption of freedom. So turn this petition into a revision: declare, right now, that you are free, guided, and continuously led by the inner angel of insight.