Neville Goddard on Revelation 18:3-4 - 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.

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Revelation 18:3-4

Biblical Context

Revelation 18:3–4 portrays worldly corruption—nations, rulers, and merchants—entangled in a symbolic wine, and a heavenly call to separate from that system to avoid sin and plagues.

Neville's Inner Vision

This text is a study of inner states. The wine signifies a consciousness addicted to outer spectacle—wealth, power, and status—felt as real only because you identify with them. Babylon is not a place but a mindset that consumes attention and denies the I AM. The command to 'come out' is an invitation to withdraw identification from that dream and return to the neglected truth of your own awareness. When you drink from that wine, you drift into fear and desire, becoming part of the illusion rather than its observer. The remedy is not escape from life but a deliberate revision: acknowledge the I AM as the sole reality and adopt that state here and now. Your exile from the world becomes a return to the kingdom within, where judgment and plague dissolve as you rest in awakened consciousness. In this light, prosperity and judgment both yield to the same question: Who am I in this moment—the dreamer or the dream?

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state of I AM and revise your awareness to see yourself already inside the inner kingdom; then feel and declare, 'I AM is my present reality,' witnessing the outer scene fade as you stand in certainty.