Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Last Days”

That inner being of which I speak is simply stirring within all of you…and all will reach the “last days.” For the only purpose of life is to come to this end, where I can say it is time for me to depart. And then I can depart only by reason of the fact that I bear on my body “the marks of Jesus”—and his mark is the birth from above, the sign of the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. Then comes David, who calls you Father; then comes the splitting of the temple or the curtain of the temple, which is your own body, and your own ascent as a serpent right up into heaven in a spiral manner like fire; then comes the descent of the dove on you, smothering you with affection. So everything said of him you will experience in a first-person, present-tense experience. You will know it is all about you.

I have had these moments I’ve seen in my visions. I’ve talked to people and I knew they had been doing this over and over and over again. I said to a group one night crossing a bridge, “Do you know you’ve done this over and over as though it was ever?” and they wouldn’t believe me. They said, “No, this is the first time we’ve crossed this bridge.” “I’ll tell you exactly what you’re going to do now you’re going across the bridge and beyond it. You’ve been crossing this bridge forever and this is what you’re going to do.” Well, they laughed at me. Everything I told them they would do they did right across that bridge and under the street beyond it. I knew it. I’ve seen them cross that bridge unnumbered times; they’ve done it over and over and over. But they had no memory of ever having done it before. And this is life.

When you read that chapter…in fact, the entire twelve chapters of Ecclesiastes…you want to close the entire book. I got into a discussion with my brother who is a doctor, he said, “Neville, I can’t get that at all. It doesn’t make any sense to me at all that there’s nothing new under the sun. We have penicillin.” But you have no memory. You speak of penicillin today as something fantastic, but I’ll take you into other worlds where that is simply babies’ play. That would be considered nothing in the world in which I could take you, where these things aren’t necessary. Then we speak of the heart transplant…take you into a world where those things are just like little toys meaning nothing. And yet it still belongs to this world of Caesar. But the world into which you will go eventually you can’t describe it. How could you describe that age when not a thing here is related to it? You go into that age as God the Father, and not a thing here can be used to illustrate or in any way describe that age.

So when people ask me, “Well, describe it for me,” how can I do it? How can I tell you that I fused with the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings? Read carefully the 30th chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. The Lord is speaking, he said, “Can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands drawing himself out of himself, just like a woman in labor? Why does every face turn pale? There never was a day like it; this is a day of terror for Jacob; but he will be saved out of it” (verses 6-7). Well, the phrase “out of it” means “because of it.” It really is used in composition of completion…the whole thing is done and because of this he will be saved. But David…yes it’s a day of terror for David. Now he speaks and he goes on, “And the Lord of hosts has said that I will break the yoke off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and no more shall anyone make a servant of you. But they shall worship the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up” (Jer. 30: 8). He tells you he has to raise him up, for he buried him in you. He will raise him up, and when he rises first he raises his son. He will not leave him in the grave.