Neville Goddard on Amos 6:7-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 6 in context

Scripture Focus

7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

8The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

9And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

10And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Amos 6:7-11

Biblical Context

Amos 6:7-11 depicts judgment that removes outward prosperity, destroys palaces and homes, and even silences the naming of the LORD, illustrating a collapse of complacent security from within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle, the siege is a symbol of your inner state. The 'great house' and the 'little house' are mental structures built from pride, self-sufficiency, and the belief that life depends on outward possessions. The 'banquet of those that stretched themselves' is the mind clinging to sensation rather than to the everlasting I AM. When the Lord God 'hath sworn by himself', that is the irrevocable inner acknowledgment that your being is not secured by walls, but by awareness. He 'delivers up the city' when you forget to name and claim the LORD within; you seal the old story with fear and silence. Yet the prophecy also contains the seed of reversal: the birth of a new awareness where the ten in one house can live as one presence, the bones laid bare, and the call to silence lifted because the inner name, I AM, is spoken again. In Neville's terms, the entire judgment is a shift in state: as you realize, 'I AM' is the only reality, the outer ruins reveal the vibrational pattern that has no power beside your conscious identification. When you re-create through feeling it real, the breaches heal and your inner architecture returns to harmony.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare I AM as the sole ruler of your inner city, revising all fear of loss by affirming I AM now. Then feel the space being safe, and sense the breaches closing as you hold the vision of wholeness.