Neville Goddard on Joel 1:8-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joel 1 in context

Scripture Focus

8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Joel 1:8-12

Biblical Context

The passage describes lament over cut-off offerings, mournful priests, and a land where the harvest fails and joy withers.

Neville's Inner Vision

All lament and ruin in Joel are not external curses but misalignments in the I AM you are becoming aware of. When the land mourns and the offerings cease, you are being shown that a prior state of consciousness has grown barren. The husbandman, the vine-dresser—your inner faculties of desire and perception—are bewailing because you have identified with lack, believing scarcity to be true. The drought and withered trees are symbolic: joy is leaving the sons of men because you have forgotten that God is the inside governor of your world. To change the scene, do not beg the outer world to shift; repair the seeing behind it. Assume that the harvest is already restored in your inner sense: corn, wine, oil, and fruit flourish, and the priests within you rejoice because your temple is alive again. Speak to yourself the truth of your being: 'I AM abundance; I AM joy; I AM the field made fertile by divine imagination.' Rest in that assumption until the sensory impression concurs with the inner truth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of abundance now. Visualize the fields green, the harvest renewed, and joy returning throughout your inner life; dwell there until it feels real.