Neville Goddard on Revelation 9:16-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 9 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Revelation 9:16-17

Biblical Context

Two hundred million horsemen on flame-armored horses symbolize powerful inner forces and beliefs arising from consciousness. The vision invites you to observe and reframe these inner movements with awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

All scripture is a diagram of states of consciousness. The two hundred million riders are not an army in a distant land but the mighty patterns of thought and feeling that ride across the landscape of your mind. The breastplates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone signify the colors of your inner dispositions—passion, discernment, and purification—protecting the sovereign will as you move. The heads of the horses, like lions, speak of a fierce, kingly I AM that can govern these forces when joined to faith. What issues from their mouths—fire, smoke, brimstone—are the thoughts and spoken beliefs that issue from your present state and shape your experience. The great multitude points to the abundance of such states that rise as you identify with a particular viewpoint. In truth, the prophecy is an invitation to bring a higher consciousness to bear on them. When you align with the I AM—the awareness that you are, and are not the body—you discover these inner agents can be commanded rather than feared. Judgment becomes awareness of your state, and your sovereignty permits you to revise it, thereby shaping the Kingdom of God here and now.

Practice This Now

Practice: Assume you are the I AM that presides over the inner army. Say quietly: I command these flames and revise every fire-thought into light, transforming the belief into a higher reality.