Neville Goddard on Revelation 20:7-9 - 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.

9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Revelation 20:7-9

Biblical Context

Revelation 20:7-9 portrays a period when the old order, symbolized as Satan, is released and deceives the nations. They gather for a final conflict around the saints, but divine fire consumes them.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner life, the thousand years are not a clock but a season of settled habit in the mind. 'Satan' is the stubborn belief that you are separate from your I AM—and when he is 'loosed' he goes out to whisper, to magnify fear, to marshal thoughts toward an imagined battle. The nations in the four quarters are the four quarters of your own consciousness—every facet of thought that forgets its unity. Gog and Magog are the personifications of doubt and desire pulling you into outer conflict; the multitude mirrors the endless procession of images your attention repeats. Yet the camp of the saints, the beloved city, remains the inner alignment with the I AM, the continual sense that you are not ruled but ruled by God within. The fire that descends is the cleansing light of awareness consuming the divided self, leaving your true I AM intact and unthreatened by outer warfare.

Practice This Now

Impose a practical inner act: assume the I AM as the guard around your inner city. When the 'Satan' of restless thoughts arises, observe it without resistance, then revise by declaring, 'I AM the power by which all things are made new,' and feel the cleansing fire of awareness settling your scene.