Breaking the Bands Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Zechariah's vision, the 'staff' and 'bands' are not wood but the patterns of your own consciousness. The split between Judah and Israel is the inner division you feel when you prize one part of yourself against another—loyalty to roles, identities, or stories about who you are and what others expect. When you identify with these bands, you sustain a 'brotherhood' that is really a prison. The 'instruments of a foolish shepherd' points to the counterfeit leader in your mind—the urge to bow to fear, to external opinion, to seek control rather than truth. Yet the LORD, the I AM, does not condemn; it invites a deliberate shift of allegiance. You may choose to unite these parts by assuming a wiser ruler: one that unites, loves, and sees the whole. By imagining and feeling that unity as real, you align your acts with wholeness and fulfill the prophetic sense of promise. You are accountable to the inner law of your consciousness, and when you awaken, you step into a state where separation dissolves into harmony.