Neville Goddard on Hosea 8:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 8 in context

Scripture Focus

1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Hosea 8:1-6

Biblical Context

Hosea 8:1-6 warns that Israel’s covenant is breached through false worship and self-made idols; the calf of Samaria stands as a symbol of inward vanity that will be broken.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the quiet of your consciousness, Hosea’s trumpet is your wakeful state. The house of the LORD is not a place in time but the I AM you are now; transgression is deviation of your attention from this living awareness. The eagle that comes is the swift movement of judgment you feel when you entertain an untrue image as reality. Israel’s ‘calf’ is an idol of your own making—silver, gold, success, need for security—produced by the workman of fear and habit. But nothing you have fashioned can stand in the Presence of God, for God is the I AM that you are. When you reject the outward idol and return to the inner loyalty of the Self, the enemy dissolves, the kings dissolve into mere choices, and the broken image becomes a signpost: you may revise and re-create with imagination until you awaken to innocency. This is not history, but the ongoing law of your consciousness: you are the creator of your scene, and your fidelity to I AM re-writes it.