The Lord's Inner Sacrifice

Zephaniah 1:7-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Zephaniah 1 in context

Scripture Focus

7Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
8And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah 1:7-9

Biblical Context

Zephaniah 1:7-9 presents a day when the Lord is near to purify, beginning with rulers and pride and exposing deceit in the life. It invites separation from idolatries and false worship in the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed from the I AM within you, the Day of the Lord is a movement of consciousness, not a future event. The sacrifice spoken of is the letting go of every self-image that binds you—pride, fear, the restless striving to prove yourself, and the masks described as strange apparel. The princes and king's children represent the governing ideas you accept as yourself when you identify with worldly roles. The threshold leap speaks of stepping into the unknown with violence and deceit in your mind; you still play out old dramas until you turn the spotlight of awareness inward. When you stand in the presence of the Lord GOD—your own abiding consciousness—these old conditions are exposed to the light and dissolved. Punishment becomes correction: the false states are removed, and you awaken to a single, sacred Presence that does not judge but reveals. The day is not coming someday; it is your awakening now, the inner feast in which you host facts of integrity, peace, and true being. Trust the revision and feel the truth until it seems real in you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit in stillness and revise your self-image by stating inwardly, 'The Day of the Lord is now; I am awareness.' Then feel your inner state of peace until your sense of self yields to it.

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