Neville Goddard on Numbers 25:8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 25 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Numbers 25:8

Biblical Context

Numbers 25:8 records Phinehas pursuing the offenders into the tent and killing them, and the plague is stayed. The plain sense is that a decisive zeal for covenant purity interrupts judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this story, the ‘man’ and the ‘woman’ are not strangers in a tent but states of consciousness you carry within. The plague is the restless energy of fear and division when you forget who you are as the I AM. Phinehas is not a warrior without; he is the decisive act of inner attention—zeal for holiness—knowing that judgment comes from identification with separation. When I, in the inner chamber, learn to stand between impulse and manifestation, I pierce the trance of discord and stay the plague by declaring the sole truth: I am the I AM, untouched by craving, loyal to the covenant of my divine nature. The keeping of interior integrity is not cruelty; it is the living principle that restores balance to the image I hold of myself and the world. This is the mechanism of what the scripture calls 'staying judgment'—not by punishment, but by a conversion of energy toward wholeness.

Practice This Now

Practice: In a quiet moment, assume the state of the I AM; say quietly, 'I am the I AM, and I stand in covenant, refusing to identify with impurity or fear.' Feel this state as real, and imagine the inner scene rearranging so the plague of discord dissolves into peace.