Neville Goddard on Amos 4:6-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 4 in context

Scripture Focus

6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

8So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:6-11

Biblical Context

Amos 4:6-11 recounts a series of divine judgments—famine, drought, pestilence, and warfare—meant to wake the people to return to the LORD, yet the refrain remains that they have not returned.

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses are not a geographical catalog of punishments but a weather report of the soul. The Lord speaks as the I AM, not on distant hills, but within your own awareness: I have given you cleanness of teeth—an inner famine of belief in nourishment; I have withheld the rain—blocked inspiration when you doubt your source; I have caused drought in some places and rain in others—your inner climates respond to your consciousness. The blasting, mildew, pestilence, and the palmerworm are thoughts and habits that gnaw at your sense of abundance. I have overthrown some of you as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown—old identities burned away—yet you have not returned to me. The refrain is not condemnation but invitation to awaken to the I AM, to realize that conditions rise and fall as you identify with a state of consciousness. When you accept the one presence, you stand as the cause of your weather, not its slave, and the inner drought dissolves into nourishment.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, place a hand on your chest, and silently say I AM. Then imagine rain blessing your inner fields, nourishment flowing into every city of your mind, and rest in the felt sense that you have returned to the I AM.