Neville Goddard on Revelation 9:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 9 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Revelation 9:5-6

Biblical Context

They are tormented for five months and cannot be killed. They long for death, but it does not come.

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us read Revelation 9:5-6 as the drama of consciousness, not distant history. The torment is a gripping belief within your own mind, a sense that something is missing, pressing upon you with the urgency of a sting. The five months mark a finite stretch of inner resistance, a habitual thought-current that seems to you as if it must endure. The cry that men seek death and cannot find it is the soul’s test of whether you identify with the sensation or with the perceiver who stands beyond it. Death flees because the I AM cannot be killed by a thought; it remains as the one constant awareness through which every scene passes. Your job is revision: assume a state in which you already possess what you seek, and feel it now. Rest in the I AM's presence, let the old belief dissolve as you hold this new view as real. When imagination is trusted to rewrite the scene, the torment loses its power and fear yields to the certainty of your awakened self. Scripture becomes a map back to the sovereign you are.