𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦, 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗧?

The idiom "the boy who cried wolf" comes from an ancient Greek fable by Aesop 

The Core Moral

• Liars are not believed, even when they tell the truth.

• Dishonesty destroys credibility and trust. 

Summary of the Fable

1. The Prank: A bored shepherd boy repeatedly tricks nearby villagers by shouting that a wolf is attacking his sheep.

2. The Deception: Each time, the villagers rush up the hill to help, only to find no wolf and realize they have been fooled.

3. The Consequence: When a real wolf actually appears and the terrified boy screams for help, the villagers ignore him, assuming it is another false alarm. As a result, the flock is destroyed. 

This past weekend, hackers broke into emergency warning apps in Ukraine and Russia and sent out alerts that nuclear and chemical attacks were coming. Phones lit up with warnings of the worst thing a person can imagine. And it was all fake. The authorities in both countries had to come out and tell their own people the alarms were fraudulent.

Sit with that a minute. Two nations already at war, and somebody proved you can reach into the pockets of millions of people and scream fire in a crowded world.

Here is why this matters more than one cruel prank. Every false alarm teaches people to ignore the next one. The first warning scares you. The fifth one annoys you. By the tenth, you silence the phone and roll over. And one day the warning will not be false.

That is exactly the spirit Peter warned about: scoffers in the last days, asking where the promise of His coming is, because everything continues as it always has (2 Peter 3:3 to 4). Delay and deception do the same work. They wear out the world's readiness until nobody is watching at all.

But Jesus did not tell us to fear the alarms or to stop listening for them. He said when you hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified, for these things must first come to pass (Luke 21:9). Not terrified, and not asleep either. Awake in the middle. That is the watchman's ground.

So stay tender to the warnings, family, but anchor your heart where no hacker can reach it. False alarms can shake a phone network. They cannot touch the promise. He is still coming, and on that day there will be nothing false about it.

Maranatha.