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Ears
A dream featuring extra large ears on a person, no ears, highlighted ears or itching ears are all biblical messages.
Jesus is frequently recorded using this metaphor; so if any of the above appear in your dreams, you can bet it’s Jesus speaking through His wonderful Holy Spirit. He loves to use exaggeration and ridiculous pictures to make a point – like beasts with seven heads! (Revelation 13:1) such imagery is what originally was meant by the word “apocalypse”/
While ears speak of physical hearing, Jesus’ cryptic phrase, “He who has ears, let him hear (what the Spirit is saying),” seems strange. Of course they can hear sounds. But what the ear is meant to represent is hearing at a spiritual level. For this to happen we need to “tune in”. All people are designed to hear spiritually, Jesus says so in John 10:27. But the will is involved because this communication – like all inter-personal relationships – involves listening to each other. It is a two-way thing.
Listening to hear Him also takes a bit of practice as there are other “voices” that don’t have our best interest at heart. One is our own fallen nature which we can see from the dream teaching, is our own will, pre-programmed mind and emotions. All these are predisposed to take us downward even when we are trying to elevate ourselves. The newly created spirit in Christ is what is able to “hear” the spiritual healing message, if we really want to.
What I have found is that the Lord wants us to hear and will repeat things via His Spirit if we are trying, but not getting it. And the other thing that is so very good is that the more we practise listening – whether via dreams, visions, inner knowing or hearing from another person, reading it etc., it does get easier. The disciples found this when they first tried to comprehend His parables. After some time hearing such symbolic stuff, they started to say He was speaking clearly. But if we look at those later parables – they were in symbols too. What had changed? Their hearts and therefore their spiritual discernment. Such skills are priceless on our journey of spiritual healing.
Itching ears speak of hearing and wanting to hear things that favour our sickness / fallenness and not good things; 2 Timothy 4:3.
Ear-rings also speak of hearing God. Pierced ear-rings in dreams speak of Jesus being pierced for our sins, and then, if we really take up our cross, our ears have been pierced or crucified. Being HIs is an absolute; we can’t hedge our bets and have some other thing more important in our lives.
If the ear-rings in the dream are fancy, but not pierced, that tells us we are listening to the wrong voice that denies our spiritual healing.
Excrement
Dreams of various kinds about excrement or poo are also biblical. Does God use such symbolism for disgusting sin? He certainly does. We read of poo, yes, God mentions human poo, not just animal fertiliser, in Ezekiel as well as in other places.
To the post-modern reader, Ezekiel may seem a little insane; but we must recall that there were no screens or billboards in Ezekiel’s day, and these were the graphics that God gave. Pictures like the one in Ezekiel 4:12-15, would have spoken volumes for Ezekiel’s contemporaries. It may bring some questioning for us, as we read them. But they are not easily forgotten imagery. Steve Gregg notes that the visual pictures we form as we read of odd things like the prophet cooking using excrement as fuel and sending his cut hair thither and yon as a message, as very memorable. See Gregg, S, Enacted Parables, Accessed 20th October 2022, https://www.thenarrowpath.com/audio/verse-by-verse/ezekiel/02_0000_Ezekiel_4-5,_12,_24,_37_(Enacted_Parables).mp3
And by the way, “farts” also appear in God’s Word, so we shouldn’t be surprised to hear them in a biblical correction or informative dream either. I was once listening to a preacher in domestic conversation. He described the adult child of one of the congregants as a “drop kick”. It was just idle speech. But our Father warns us against this kind of talk against others. The comment troubled me as it came from someone whom I should be able to look up to, God forgive him. But that night the Lord showed me the same situation but instead of words, foul farting came out and the interpretation of this was given immediately from Isaiah 26:18. Giving birth to wind, not the effective, healing breath of God, but of something detrimental, useless, failing to do the good that our words and deeds are meant to do.
