Inner Lordship Unveiled

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage the gods of the earth are not distant idols but fixed beliefs that claim power over you. The Lord being terrible to them means your higher awareness, the I AM, exposes the emptiness of every personal idol—wealth, status, fear, or old identities—that you have allowed to govern your life. When it says men shall worship Him from their place, it is teaching that true worship is inward alignment: you acknowledge the One Presence within and let all other impressions keep their proper place. The isles of the heathen are the isolated corners of a mind where scattered beliefs cling; the sword of the Lord is the cutting through those images by conscious awareness. The line about Ethiopians slain by My sword can be read as the ending of a long self-image—the sense that you are defined by struggle or separation. Zephaniah invites you to revise your sense of self until the whole field is governed by the I AM and the old gods are starved into silence.