Neville Goddard on Hosea 9:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 9 in context

Scripture Focus

5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

Hosea 9:5-9

Biblical Context

These verses announce a day of visitation and recompense, revealing destruction as a consequence of inward condition. They speak of flawed leadership and warning that Israel's state mirrors inner turmoil.

Neville's Inner Vision

The days Hosea calls 'visitation' are not external judgments but steps in your inner life: a moment when your consciousness shifts. In Neville's terms, you are not at the mercy of history but are the I AM, the aware self. The 'watchman of Ephraim' is your own God-present awareness; when you identify with the 'prophet' as your thoughts, that voice can become a snare, leading you away from true union. The cry of corruption and exile signals the old patterns clinging to you, which you can uproot by a deliberate revision of state. Picture the nettles and thorns as thoughts and fear-based images that choke your vitality, and feel them recede as you dwell in the garden of inner awareness. The moment of visitation invites you to align your inner man with the divine; judgment dissolves into correction, and punishment becomes a gentle correction of your state. Embrace that you are already in God's presence, here and now, and let your life reflect that truth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the I AM state as your permanent reality; repeat 'I AM' while imagining the inner watchman guiding you, letting old beliefs fall away and a new harmony arise.