Neville Goddard Lectures: “Salvation History – Not Secular”
08 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “Salvation History – Not Secular”
5/7/1971
When we open the Bible, we are looking, not at secular history, but salvation history. Man, not knowing that, has misinterpreted most of the great truths of Scripture. They are all mysteries, and these mysteries are not matters to be kept secret; they are simply mysterious in character. We will take quite a few tonight and try to piece them together for you, and then tell you my personal experience that will lead you to your own conclusion. You may deny it, but they will leave you to come to your own conclusion.
They asked him, “What is the first and greatest commandment?”
And he said, “This is the first commandment: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”
They asked him now concerning adultery and marriage and divorce. Then he goes back into the book of Genesis, the second chapter, concerning man and woman, and he takes the story and says, “Man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one.” It is stated, “and they become one.” The two become one. This is God’s arithmetic: One plus one equals one. On this level it equals two, but whom is he speaking of? He has just stated the First Commandment: There is only God. There is nothing but God.
We are told in Isaiah: “Your Maker is your Husband. The Lord of Hosts is His name.” If “the Lord of Hosts” is His name and it’s your Maker, and He is your Husband, well then, he cleaves to you until you become one.
Now we are told, “What God has joined, let not man put asunder.” Well, man makes every effort in the world to separate man from God. We speak of God as another. We are not conscious of the fact that we are one, and every priest, rabbi and other ministers in the world teach of another; therefore, there is no One.
He is telling us that God, our Maker, is our Husband. Well, if our Husband leaves everything and cleaves to us and we become one, He said, “What God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” It hasn’t a thing to do with the earthly relationship between male and female. Your true Maker is God, and God is Your Husband. You will become one! This, I tell you from experience.
The 87th Psalm – there are only seven verses:
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah
Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; Behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia – “This one was born there,” they say.
And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.
The LORD records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah
Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”
It will give you such a wonderful, clear picture of it. Let us take it, now, in this form: “And David slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David.” Now we are told that David took the “stronghold of Zion,” and renamed it the “City of David.” We are told the City of David is now called the “City of God.” And we are told in this 87th Psalm that “the Lord loves Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.” (Psalm 87:2) “Zion,” “Bethlehem,” “City of God,” “City of David,” “Jerusalem” are synonymous terms. He loves them all more – this one city – than all the dwelling places of Jacob.