Neville Goddard Lectures: “A Riddle”

16 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “A Riddle”

4/28/69

Tonight we will take a riddle. We are so accustomed to this strange, false, secular interpretation of scripture that we do not realize how daring it is. It is not history as the world understands it. It hasn’t a thing to do with the drama on earth; it’s all about the soul, the reality of man. So the question is asked in the 30th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, “Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!” (30:4). So do we know? That’s the beginning of the riddle. It’s a challenge and only the indolent mind would fail to accept the challenge.

Now, in the Old—for the New is only the interpretation of the Old—the question is asked concerning a father and a son. “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but it is the glory of kings to search them out.” We find that in the Book of Proverbs, the 25th chapter: “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but it is the glory of kings to search them out” (25:2). Now we go to the last book of the Old Testament, “A son is the glory of his father. If then I am a father, where is my glory? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests” (Mal.1.6). Now he includes in the word “O priests” all who assumed this right, the authority to interpret the Word of God, whether you be pope or one just starting a little ism, who dares to establish some little ism. So he asks a question, “A son is the glory of his father. If then I am a father, where is my glory?”—that is, where is my son, says the Lord of hosts to you— O priest.

Now, let us from actual experience unriddle the riddle. For this is a riddle; it’s not secular history. Hasn’t a thing to do with anything that took place on earth as you and I understand it. It takes place in the soul of man. Now, who is the king, the only king made by God? We’re told in the Book of 1st Samuel, he said to his servant the prophet Samuel, “Go to the house of Jesse, for I have chosen one of the sons of Jesse to be king” (16:12). He will serve me. So Samuel goes to the house of Jesse and announces the purpose of his visit and Jesse brings out his sons. One after the other they are rejected…that is not him, are there any others? He finally brings out the little one who was tending the flocks, a shepherd, and his name was David. As he came into the midst, the Lord said to Samuel, “Arise, anoint him; this is he. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily from that day forward.” So here we find the king spoken of. He is the king, no other king. Man chose the king, his name was Saul; but the Lord rejected the choice of man and the Lord chose the king.