Neville Goddard on Numbers 25:4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 25 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Numbers 25:4

Biblical Context

The verse records God telling Moses to hang the leaders up before the sun so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. It presents a public, punitive action as a means to restore the community's balance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 25:4 presents not a historical decree but an inner invitation: expose the thinking that produces anger to the light of the I AM within you. The 'heads of the people' are the ruling beliefs and judgments that lead you to condemn; 'hang them up before the LORD against the sun' means bring those beliefs into the sun-drenched awareness until their power wanes. The 'fierce anger' is your own fearful state when you identify with a hostile verdict; turning it away from 'Israel' signifies restoring harmony within your inner nation by mercy, not punishment. Upon this light, Providence and Guidance show themselves as your awareness shifting the mental weather from strife to peace. The practical truth is simple: when you illuminate a judgment and revise it with love, you release the cause of apparent external consequence. Thus the inner law works: the light you permit to shine in your mind dissolves the heat of resentment and reveals a just, merciful order.

Practice This Now

Identify a judgment you hold about someone or yourself; in imagination, hang it in the Sun of Awareness until its heat fades, then revise it to mercy and feel the I AM restoring harmony within your mind.