Neville Goddard on Hosea 10:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 10 in context

Scripture Focus

8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

9O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

Hosea 10:8-9

Biblical Context

God's message shows the high places of vanity will be destroyed, and the altars overgrown with thorn and thistle will be exposed. The people plead for mountains to cover them, resisting the inner change required to overcome sin.

Neville's Inner Vision

Do you see Hosea's language as a map of your own mind? The high places of Aven are inner altars erected to vanity, cravings, status, approval, that feed on fear. The thorn and the thistle on those altars are the weeds of habit and doubt, and the cry for mountains to cover us is a wish to escape truth. The note about Gibeah records the stubborn memory of the old self, the battleground against iniquity did not overtook them because the mind clung to familiar forms. In Neville's terms, this is not condemnation but a reveal of your present state. Now assume a new inner condition: I AM the sole power and reality; I have destroyed every altar of vanity in my mind. Revision: these altars crumble as I acknowledge the truth. Feel-it-real: breathe and watch the thorns loosen, the thistles withdraw, the mountains recede, and a simple worship of awareness arise within you. The memory of Gibeah fades to a distant echo, and the inner battle yields to a steady alignment with I AM—the true, unassailable ruler of your life.