Neville Goddard on Hosea 1:1-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

4And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

5And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

6And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

7But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

8Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

9Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Hosea 1:1-11

Biblical Context

Hosea is told to marry Gomer, illustrating that Israel's pattern is spiritual unfaithfulness; God will judge, yet promise mercy to Judah and eventual restoration, making the people the sons of the living God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner vision, you are Hosea's self, and the land's whoredom is the mind chasing images apart from the I AM. The names Jezreel, Loruhamah, Lo-ammi are not places but states of consciousness you wear as you identify with appearances: power struggles (the bow), recoil from mercy, the sense of not being God's people. The judgment you sense in the material world mirrors your inner misalignment: when you think you must wage wars, you betray the one Life. Yet the Father's mercy does not abandon you; it simply reclaims the heart and announces a future where Israel and Judah are gathered into one head—the restored sense of being one with the living God. The arc from rupture to reconciliation is your own inner revision: dis-identifying from fear, re-identifying with the I AM, and allowing mercy to lead the way. The day Jezreel proclaims is the dawning conviction that your identity is not a chain of events but a single, unified I AM: the living God in you.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner state of 'the Son of the living God' now and feel it in the chest; revise any sense of separation by declaring 'I am the I AM in action' and observe your day aligning with that truth.