Inner Sun Reversal: Amos 8:9-10

Amos 8:9-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Amos 8 in context

Scripture Focus

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos 8:9-10

Biblical Context

Amos 8:9-10 describes a day when God darkens the sun at noon and turns feasts into mourning, signaling a dramatic inner reversal rather than a literal catastrophe.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s key, the sun going dark in the clear day is not a meteorological event but a shift in your inner weather. The outward light you trust is but a symbol of your present state of consciousness, and when God says I will cause the sun to go down, He speaks to you as the I AM, your awareness, deciding to revise what feels real. The feasts and songs becoming mourning reveal how, when you are identified with lack or separation, life’s celebrations sour and your inner pace slows. Yet the message is not judgment but a challenge: shed the old garments—sackcloth on the loins, baldness on every head—the worn identities by which you define yourself in time, and welcome the birth of your true self, the only son of your inner being. The bitter day marks an ending of a false sense of time, a doorway into a new day where you know that all events are manifestations of consciousness. Your world is not contrived by chance but created by the state you entertain within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM; I now assume the state that all outward appearances bow to my inner joy.' Then imagine the sun dimming in the mind, and feel the feasts turning to quiet gratitude as the new day of inner awareness is born.

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