Neville Goddard on Amos 1:13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 1 in context

Scripture Focus

13Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

Amos 1:13

Biblical Context

God declares that the nation's repeated transgressions—three and then four—will not go unpunished. The offense cited is brutal harm to the vulnerable—pregnant women—done to enlarge their border.

Neville's Inner Vision

Three and four are not numbers to tally in time, but states of consciousness you entertain within. The Ammon vibration—an urge to enlarge borders by coercion—appears as a hard truth to you only because you have not yet assumed a greater inner state. The offense of ripping up the women with child is the mind's attack on inner life—your own energy of creation—taken as a means to widen external control. When you accept that you are the I AM, the observer of all that arises, you see that the border you seek to 'enlarge' already exists within your awareness. The moment you revise, you do not resist the impulse by denial but by substitution: imagine the border growing through compassion, harmony, and the healing of the vulnerable, and feel it real. Then the inner and outer kingdoms align, and punishment ceases to be meaningful because you are living from your true being.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the I AM now as your only reality. When the urge to enlarge borders by force arises, revise it by imagining inner borders expanding through compassion and unity, and feel it real.