Neville Goddard on Hosea 9:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 9 in context

Scripture Focus

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Hosea 9:10

Biblical Context

Israel is depicted as grapes in the wilderness, a people with promise. Yet they turn to Baalpeor, separating themselves from true worship by what they love.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel is not a separate people but a state of consciousness within you. The wilderness is the mind when attention wanders from the I AM, leaving the grape of potential to wither for lack of settled awareness. The firstripe of the fig tree points to the first fruits of awareness appearing in form. Baalpeor is not an external idol to be punished; it is the counterfeit attraction your imagination can entertain when you forget your true identity. Separation arises whenever you love a mere image of reality more than the truth of your unity with God; abominations are the acts that spring from that misbelief. The remedy is a conversion of your state: awaken to the I AM here and now, decide you are loyal to the one God within, and feel the truth as real. By assuming the end—that you are one with divine fidelity—you reverse the movement from striving to surrender to the awareness that you already are the ground of all. Your present experience becomes the fruit of that revised assumption, and the wilderness yields its grapes again.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and see the I AM in you as a vine bearing grapes in a desert. Revise the sense of separation by affirming your loyalty to true worship and feel it real.