Neville Goddard on Numbers 33:50-56 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 33 in context

Scripture Focus

50And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

51Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

54And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Numbers 33:50-56

Biblical Context

God commands the Israelites to enter the land, drive out its inhabitants, and destroy their idols, then divide the land by lot; neglect leads to trouble and vexation in the land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your mind stands at the banks of a Jordan, ready to cross into a Canaan of awareness. The command to possess the land is a call to recognize yourself as the I AM and to clear the mental landscape of images that pretend ownership. Destroying their pictures and high places is the dissolution of limiting beliefs and idols that claim you are not enough. The division of the land by lot corresponds to the orderly distribution of inner states of consciousness—abundance, peace, purpose—according to the measure of your attention. If you neglect this inner clearing, the remnants of doubt become pricks and thorns, vexing the land of your life. Yet when you affirm, “I am the possessor of this land,” you inhabit a steadfast inner inheritance and dwell there in memory’s full reality. The covenant is kept not by external conquest but by maintaining the I AM as the ruling reality in your inner realm, aligning outer circumstances with that state through consistent imagination and faithfulness.

Practice This Now

Assume the state, whispering, “I AM the possessor of this land.” In a moment of stillness, image driving out every image of lack and occupy the inner ground by feeling the imagined royalty of your true inheritance.