Neville Goddard on Revelation 9:1-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

15And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

18By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Revelation 9:1-21

Biblical Context

Revelation 9:1-21 depicts a force unleashed on those lacking spiritual alignment, bringing torment that cannot kill, followed by calls to repentance and alignment with God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the fifth trumpet as a turning within: a star of consciousness descends into your field and opens a pit of forgotten fears. The smoke darkening the sun and air represents awareness dimmed by fixed beliefs; yet the pit exists as a doorway your imagination can enter. From it arise locusts—your habitual thoughts and patterns—granted power to torment those who have not the seal of God in their foreheads, i.e., those not anchored in the I AM within. They are not allowed to kill, only to sting for a finite season—five months—reflecting a repeating inner pattern you can revise. In those days, the mind may crave escape, but death flees because the remedy is not withdrawal but a shift of state. The locusts’ forms—the crowns, hair, and wings—mirror the shapes your fearful thoughts assume when you identify with fear rather than with divine awareness. The sixth angel’s loosening of four bound angels suggests releasing long-held beliefs that threaten an old self; yet the invitation remains: repent and align with the God within. Real power is the consciousness you inhabit, here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state 'I AM' as your permanent identity and revise any fear as 'I am free.' Close your eyes and feel this truth as the only reality for five minutes.