 The Bible says the time will come when people will not endure sound doctrine, but instead have itching ears and what will they do? They will seek for themselves, people or teachers to preach or to tell them what they want to hear. So the question is, how do you know if you have itching ears? Well, it's pretty simple. One, you don't value sound doctrine. You don't value what the word of the Lord tells you. You don't search the scriptures. You don't find value in spending time in them, but rather you'd have someone to tell you something that can comfort you rather than convict you. If someone can tell you something and it doesn't come true, but you still value what they say, you want to go back to them because it comforts you, because it gives you hope in something possibly happening good for you, you have itching ears. If finding the treasures that the Lord has for us in the scriptures are not enough, if you don't constantly seek them, if you don't desire to seek them, then you have itching ears. If you'd rather listen to a person who is known to have false doctrine, false and vague prophecies, you have itching ears if you look for them rather than searching for God. The question is, seek after him.