Hosea 9:5-6 Inner Feast
Hosea 9:5-6 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hosea 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Hosea presents the solemn day and the LORD's feast, showing that destruction scatters the people and that external ritual cannot save a disturbed inner life. The passage points to exile and ruin as outward results of inner neglect, shifting focus to inner condition rather than outward ceremony.
Neville's Inner Vision
On the page you read Hosea, the solemn day and the feast stand as inner moments rather than outer events. The line about destruction speaks to a state of consciousness that has wandered from the I AM, allowing old habits (Egypt) to pull you back and former identities (Memphis) to bury what you think you possess. Nettles gripping your dwelling and thorns at your tabernacle reveal a life of worship that forgot its source. In Neville’s imagination, the 'return' is a shift of inner state, not a calendar reform. When you accept that the feast is within and that the I AM is your constant, the external scattering loosens. You become the one who gathers himself, who thrives in a single living consciousness. The apparent ruin becomes a cue to revise, to awaken to a present reality where abundance, safety, and lawful order pulse from inside you. In that inner renewal, exile becomes a memory and true worship is restored as alignment with God within.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: In a quiet minute, declare 'I AM the feast of God within me.' Feel the inner light expanding as fear dissolves and the external signs of ruin fade, then imagine the nettles and thorns giving way to a radiant tabernacle.
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