Neville Goddard on Amos 4:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 4 in context

Scripture Focus

1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

2The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:1-3

Biblical Context

The text condemns oppression of the poor by the powerful and foretells a day of punishment. In Neville's terms, this points to an inner condition you must transform.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the kine of Bashan are not just neighbors in Samaria, but states of consciousness clinging to pride and control. The oppressing action is an inner habit: the mind pressing the poor into lack, the ego insisting, bring, and let us drink a ritual of scarcity and self-importance. The Lord GOD swears by holiness that days will come when you are pulled away with hooks and fishhooks the visible consequences of those internal dispositions. The external exile and breach symbolize the collapse of the fortress built by belief in separation. The prophecy is not about a distant geography; it is your present inner weather insisting on its own way until you awaken. The remedy is to identify the I AM behind every thought and before every feeling, and to revise the story from oppression to abundance, from fear to unity. When you claim the consciousness that is not dependent on others, the hooks lose their grip, and the imagined gates open inside you, releasing you from the palace of old identity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the I AM as your true identity. Revise the scene by saying I AM free and abundant now, and, while breathing, feel the release as real.