Neville Goddard on Revelation 20:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 20 in context

Scripture Focus

7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Revelation 20:7-8

Biblical Context

After a long inner peace, the old adversary is released to deceive the nations and gather them for battle within the mind. This is an inner drama you witness, not a distant event, inviting you to revise your state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Revelation 20:7-8 asks you to see the pageant as mental drama. After a long season of peace, the thought-forces you call 'Satan' are released from their prison of doubt, not to march on cities, but to test your inner sovereignty. The four quarters of the earth are the four corners of your mind—the thoughts of north, south, east, and west—rising as a chorus. Gog and Magog are the rebellious ideas that gather to battle; they are the endless story you tell yourself about fear, limitation, and separation. The number of them is as the sand of the sea because when you identify with a lower state, countless beliefs arise to defend it. The spiritual meaning is simple: the inner kingdom endures; the outer drama is a call to wake from the dream of separation. Meet it with the knowledge that God is I AM, the only power here. Revision—an assumption made in feeling—restores the peace and dissolves the illusion of a competing force. Your accountability is to hold to the truth within, until the inner image of unity becomes your lived reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in stillness and affirm, 'There is only God in me.' Visualize the loosed Satan returning to the prison of your I AM, then rest in the feeling that the inner power governs all.