DOCTRINE OF EARS

A. Ears are used for the function of GAP, Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Prov 18:15; Job 34:1-3.

B. Ears are used for supergrace dedication, Ps 40:6; Ex 21:6; Deut 15:17.

C. The ear is used for negative volition to doctrine, Jer 6:10.

D. The ear is used to portray reversionism leading to the fifth cycle of discipline, Isa 6:10.

E. The ear was part of the consecration of the priest, Ex 29:20; Lev 8:23. Blood on the right ear indicated the function of the priesthood in studying and teaching the Word.

F. A healed leper had blood placed on his ear to indicate the importance of doctrine in the salvation of hopeless problems, Lev 14:14.

G. Ears of God are used as an anthropomorphism.

1. David describes the ear as the anthropomorphism of God in his reversion recovery, Ps 34:15.

2. The ear of God is used as an anthropomorphism in the restoration of Israel from the fifth cycle of discipline, Neh 1:6.

3. The ear of God is used as an anthropomorphism is contrast with idols who cannot hear, Isa 59:1; Ps 135:17.

H. The ear is associated with gossip, Prov 17:4.

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