Neville Goddard on Hosea 7:1-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 7 in context

Scripture Focus

1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

Hosea 7:1-10

Biblical Context

Israel's leaders and people are portrayed as deceitful and proud; their private choices reveal a pattern of wickedness that God observes, leading to judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Hosea’s arid account, the wickedness, deceit, and pride are not merely external offenses but the states of consciousness you harbor within. The ‘oven’ and the relentless baker symbolize your habitual thoughts and reactions that heat your mind into action, producing a life that seems to devour its own judges and rulers. When the text says God would heal but iniquity is discovered, it points to the moment awareness turns inward and sees the inner climate that shapes outward conditions. The kings, princes, and their lies are your ruling thoughts, decisions, and beliefs whose indulgences you tolerate as if they were separate from you. The refrain ‘there is none who calls unto me’ is the forgotten awareness of the I AM within, the very realization that truth cannot be found outside but must be awakened within. The remedy is simple and radical: acknowledge the healed state now, revise the old narrative, and let the light of I AM transform the inner furnace from heat of conflict to warmth of restoration.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the healing state as a present fact: I am healed now, and all conditions reflect that wholeness. Throughout the day, revise any sense of decay by stating, 'This is memory of a former state; I am restored in the I AM,' and feel it real.