Neville Goddard on Psalms 78:48-51 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 78 in context

Scripture Focus

48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Psalms 78:48-51

Biblical Context

These verses present God’s anger and judgment expressed as plague and death upon Egypt, culminating in the death of Egypt’s firstborn. The passage reads as a dramatic display of divine power and consequence linked to Israelite history.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines are not a distant chronicle but a map of inner life. The hail, pestilence, and the death of the firstborn are not external events but states of consciousness you invite into your mind when you identify with fear, scarcity, or separation from the I AM. The fierce anger and the ‘evil angels’ are not rival beings but the vivid pictures you animate through belief. When you imagine yourself as a separate self, you cast your inner cattle to the hail and your flocks to thunderbolts, and you experience the so-called judgments in your outer world. Yet there is a path through: God makes a way to his anger—an inner pivot that allows you to stop feeding the storm and return to the awareness of the I AM as the unchanging Life. The ‘firstborn’ are your entrenched beliefs about self and power, born of old habit, now ready to die so a higher order may arise. By recognizing you are the dreamer and choosing a new state of consciousness, you revise the scene; the outer plague dissolves as you inhabit the grace you already are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and declare, I AM the I AM; feel the steady, benevolent presence at your core. Revise the scene by dwelling in that state until the inner weather shifts and the outer experience follows.