Neville Goddard on Numbers 25:1-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

3And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

4And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.

6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

12Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

13And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

14Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

15And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

17Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

18For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

Numbers 25:1-18

Biblical Context

Numbers 25:1-18 depicts Israel’s slip into idolatry with the Moabites, Phinehas’ zealous act of judgment, and God’s granting of a covenant of peace after the plague.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel is the inner scene where impulse and desire mingle with allegiance. The episode is not merely history but a state of mind clinging to surface gods of appetite. Phinehas rises as the I AM in action; his spear through the tent is the symbolic cutting through distraction, the moment when inner judgment turns back and healing begins. The decree, I give unto him my covenant of peace, is the promise that when zeal for truth burns, a scattered consciousness gathers into divine order. The plague represents inner sickness born of separation from the one God within; the resolve to atone and protect the whole is formed by a single, decisive act of fidelity to God. Peace, then, is not the absence of conflict but the alignment of imagination with the I AM, where fear is transmuted into loyalty and division into unity. When the inner camp stands true, the mind returns to its central worship and the nation awakens to its true covenant.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, I AM the I AM; envision Phinehas arising within you, cutting through distraction with zealous clarity, and feel the inner plague dissolve as you align with divine order.