Through Edom's Boundary Within
Numbers 20:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Numbers 20:18 records Edom denying passage with the sword. It signals how outer resistance mirrors the inner boundaries we accept.
Neville's Inner Vision
Picture the scene not as a desert event but as the condition of your own mind. Edom's refusal to pass is the voice of a belief you hold: you cannot go beyond the limit you perceive. The sword is the visible threat of your thoughts when you insist a boundary is real. Yet the I AM within you does not negotiate with fear; it simply is the ground of all movement. To interpret this scripture in the Neville manner is to shift from the event to the state that precedes it. If you imagine yourself and your goal already on the far side, you are no longer the traveler confronting obstruction but the consciousness that passes through. The Edom barrier dissolves as you dwell in the certainty that you are the kind of being who passes through every boundary by virtue of inner consent. The passage becomes a mental act: decide, imagine, and feel the result as present certainty. Your current appearance of resistance is only a signal to revise your internal decree.
Practice This Now
Assume you have already passed through Edom; feel the other side as present now, and gently affirm, 'I pass freely now.'
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