Inner Watchman and the Prophet

Neville's Inner Vision

Here Hosea invites us to consider the watchman as your present state of consciousness—ever alert, ever aligned with God. Ephraim's watchman being with my God means your awareness is joined to the divine presence. Yet the prophet, when severed from love and made a tool of judgment, becomes a snare of a fowler—an inner voice that draws you into repeating patterns. The house of God becomes a battlefield where hatred festers as hypocrisy, a feeling that you are pure while others are not, turning worship into self-righteousness. Neville's approach says: you don't seek God somewhere outside; you are always the I AM, and your creations arise from your inner states. If you cling to a prophetic persona that condemns or exiles parts of yourself, you trap your energy in fear. The remedy is a deliberate revision: affirm your oneness with God, invite compassion into your inner temple, and treat the prophetic voice as a servant, not a sovereign. By feeling it real that you are the watchman who loves, you dissolve the snare and restore holy harmony.