Neville Goddard on Revelation 18:3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 18 in context

Scripture Focus

3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:3

Biblical Context

Nations and kings are drawn into a wine of fornication—the wealth and pleasures produced by a corrupt system. Merchants profit, and the cycle reinforces idolatry and greed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 18:3 invites us to notice that the world's appetites mirror a state of mind. The wine and fornication are not merely external alliances; they are inner dispositions - the belief that life is sustained by outer wealth, social power, and exotic pleasures. When you identify yourself with such a system, you become a nation or a king in your own consciousness, dependent on others' favors and the ever-shifting market. But God is the I AM, the timeless awareness that never lacks and never upholds separation. To see through the scene, return your attention to your inner treasury: imagine a single, unassailable Current of Life flowing through you, independent of merchants or rulers. As you rest in that awareness, the lure of delicacies loses its hold, because you are no longer defined by the appearance of wealth. True worship begins when you acknowledge that your abundance is the manifestation of your own state of consciousness, not the external system.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: For the next few minutes, sit quietly and declare I am the I AM; abundance flows from within. Visualize wealth as a light moving through your own consciousness, independent of external merchants, and feel it as real.