Neville Goddard Lectures: “Behold This Dreamer” (1966)

29 Jun Neville Goddard Lectures: “Behold This Dreamer” (1966)

By Neville Goddard – 9/16/66

As I told you when I opened last Monday, this will be the most practical course you ever heard. It will be the most profoundly spiritual, but whatever is most profoundly spiritual is in reality most directly practical. And the promise I made you on Monday I’ll keep tonight. It seems the most extravagant claim in the world. The man who stands before you, who must make the inevitable exit from this world and this little garment be turned into dust, and that I dare to tell you I will this night bring you to the Lord Jesus Christ. I will bring you to him this night. You may not believe him, you may not accept it, that’s entirely up to you, but I will bring you to him.

As told in scripture, “And Philip found Nathaniel, and he said to Nathaniel, ‘I have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.’” Now, in this same first chapter of John, John makes the statement, “Among you stands one whom you do not know. I myself did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, he baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I saw the Holy Spirit descend as a dove and it remained upon him. Through him all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” Now, you listen to it carefully, for I’ll bring you to him this night, as we’re told in scripture Philip brought Nathaniel. Listen carefully as I unfold these words, because they are so important to you to really follow what I’m going to talk about. I have titled this “Behold This Dreamer.” If you are familiar with scripture, it’s the 37th chapter of Genesis, and the one spoken of is Joseph. “Behold this dreamer cometh.” So he came, his brothers sold him into slavery in the land of Egypt; and Joseph saves the entire civilization from starvation by interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh. Then be bought the entire land of Egypt for Pharaoh, including those who stole the land and made all of them slaves of Pharaoh; and then he was the great power next to Pharaoh.

The Bible begins, the Book of Genesis, “In the beginning God…” and it ends “…in a coffin in Egypt.” The one placed in a coffin is Joseph: “In the beginning God…in a coffin in Egypt.” And yet, this one placed in the coffin in Egypt, before he’s placed there, he extracts from his brothers the promise they would not let him remain there; they would take his bones up and take him back to where his fathers were. That’s on the surface.

Here, in scripture you cannot take the characters Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and eliminate them and still have the Bible. They are found in the two genealogies of Jesus Christ, both in Matthew and in Luke. In fact, Matthew begins it with Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and so on. So here we find these three, the inner core of the patriarchs of scripture. Yet, they have not turned up in any ancient Near East manuscript or record, either as individuals or as tribes. If these are the core, the entire background of that which is now brought to complete fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and that is part of his genealogy, and they are not discovered outside of scripture in any ancient contemporary world, either as individuals or as tribes, why? This whole drama unfolds within you. These are the eternal states through which man, the immortal you, must pass. And you begin in the state called Abraham, and you end in the state called Jesus Christ. When you end there you awaken and you are the creator of it all, God himself.