A duty to warn – a moral responsibility,
To notify potential targets or victims.
Of possible or probable impending injury,
About which someone may have …insightful wisdom. 1
It’s especially applied to products and paid services,
In efforts to avoid legal liability for harms,
About which known info or insights, may not be obvious.
Sharing such info, can help raise folks’ awareness and alarms.
Some national intelligence services practice this norm,
Across their community of alliances.
To it, some ensure their intelligence agencies conform,
Including sharing warnings …with adversaries!
Escalating tensions across our world help to ensure,
That warnings shared, won’t necessarily be well-received!
Un-trusting recipients of warnings cannot be sure,
That, by warnings from adversaries, they might be deceived!
Such was the case twice in early 2024.
First, the U.S. warned Iran of an impending terror threat, 2
Then, it warned Russia of a terror threat at its door. 3
In both cases, with preparations, the warnings were not met!
In both cases, hundreds of civilians were killed,
Because warnings were not believed, clear or actionable.
As a result, I’m sure intelligence staffs were grilled!!!
Fears make us blind to warnings, even those creditable!
Independent of that very sad news, or so I thought,
The Lord led me to re-read Ezekiel 33.
Days later, I connected the dots to what He had sought:
To remind me, why He is warning you, of threats... through me!
In that chapter, The Lord commissioned Ezekiel,
As a watchman for his fellow, ancient Jews,
Warning him, Be faithful, or you will be culpable!
He was, though by most, his warnings …were refused.
Ezekiel was to hear warnings from The Lord’s mouth,
And then pass them on to anyone who would listen.
Those who heeded the warnings were spared
…‘when things went south!’ 4
With culpability, Ezekiel wasn’t laden.
Years earlier, it was Isaiah whom The Lord fingered,
To warn ancient Jews to repent of their untoward ways.
But folks failed to imagine Isaiah’s …’vision forward’.
Thus, only some remnant groups were spared from judgment forays. 5
And today???
News reports of outbreaks of various epidemics, 6
Including of early on-set cancers in young people,
Testify of health system’s improving diagnostics.
Who links that to what The Lord said would be predictable?? 7
Now, The Lord has commissioned …‘lots of Ezekiels’,
Faithful prophets, like me, as His modern watchmen, ? 8
Sounding His warnings so you can be eligible,
To be spared from the works of His judgment henchmen.
You see, we have creditable intelligence that sin,
Is worse than cancer, an epidemic or a pandemic!
No matter what you think of it, or the lies devils spin.
It’s our ‘elephant in the room’; a global sin pandemic! 9
Yet, as with Covid, folks seriously lack faith to believe!
The Lord has no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
Because He knows His eternal judgments they will ALL receive,
When they’ll stand before Him, after from hell, they’re wrested. 10
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1 Credible intelligence. See the closing paragraphs of: Duty to Warn, Wikipedia.
2 See: U.S. Warns Iran.
3 See: U.S. Warns Russia.
4 An idiom that means when things become much worse.
5 See: The Truth Rejection Effect (Poem).
6 Epidemics of petty and violent crime, gun violence, drug addiction, racial hatred, obesity, cultural intolerances, political/corporate/personal corruption, fatherlessness, weapons proliferation, fear and anxiety, abortions, faithlessness, all manners of unrighteousness...and the list goes on, and on, and...
7 See: Four Judgment Henchmen, Explained.
8 See: Revelation 19:10.
9 See: Elephant in the Room (Poem).
10 See: The Lake of Fire: A Preview (Series), and also Letter to 4th Age Christians (Poem).
