Three Shepherds Cut Off

Neville's Inner Vision

Three shepherds in your mind are the persistent authorities you trust to rule your life: fear, lack, and the urge to control outcomes. Zechariah paints their rapid removal—three cut off in a single month—as a symbolic pruning of your old mental government. In Neville language, this is the moment your I AM awakens to sovereignty and the old governors recoil; their souls abhor the I AM because they exist only as you feed them with attention. The judgment is not punishment from a vengeful God but the natural consequence of turning your attention away from the old leaders and toward the true ruler inside you: awareness itself. Exile and return appear as the soul steps back from habitual scripts, only to re-enter under new guidance, the guidance of your perfected I AM. When you revise your self-image by assuming the truth that you are the I AM, you align with the inner governor who never condemns, who simply redefines what rules your experience. The old leaders fade as you stand in the light of consciousness.