Neville Goddard on Malachi 1:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Malachi 1 in context

Scripture Focus

7Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

8And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 1:7-8

Biblical Context

Malachi 1:7-8 rebukes offering tainted sacrifices and questions how that pollutes worship; it condemns offering the blind, lame, or sick as evil, not acceptable to God.

Neville's Inner Vision

View this oracle as a map of your inner altar. The table of the LORD is not an outer ceremony but the state of awareness you hold in the silence of your mind. When you call the bread polluted and treat the holiness of your feast as contemptible, you reveal a consciousness that mistakes form for truth. The charge against offering the blind, the lame, and the sick is a diagnosis of a mind that accepts limitation instead of transforming it. The governor—the I AM within you—will not be taken with ritual unless your inner life is aligned with integrity. To please the governor, refine the state you inhabit: forgive imagined flaws, revise limitation into abundance, and feel as if you already stand in a pure order of being. Do not argue with the letter of worship; reform the consciousness behind it. As you shift the state, the outer scene conforms to the new inner reality imagined by you.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and declare 'I am the pure altar now.' Revise any polluted belief by affirming, 'I offer the best of my consciousness,' and feel the inner governor accepting your clean offering.