Warning people of evil can help them avoid it.
If they are given an address or something, then they can recognize it by that alone and stay away from it instead of investigating it and inadvertently being exposed to something they cannot unsee (for lack of a better term).
Warning people of danger is an act of love if you want them to avoid evil. If by providing the information to warn people, some people indulge instead of avoid, well, that can’t be helped. If they want to seek out evil, they’ll find it anyway. Ignoring it or pretending it doesn’t make it go away. Out of sight, out of mind is not a wise spiritual principle to hold to in regard to evil.
The way to overcome evil is with good through God.
Wise words for man. Definitely. But even Jesus doesnt show us where the address of hell is. He just tells us what not to do or we will be there. Jesus didnt tell us the address of all the people Mary Magadalene was with, he just said, “ your sins are forgiven, go in peace!”. Jesus didnt tell us why Peter denied him, Paul ( Saul) was a murderer, and other specific weaknesses, places of evil, etc... that he could have shown in humans.
He didnt do this because it’s not important to know.
Though I totally understand where you are coming from. The society we are in today constantly feeds us info that we “ think “ we need to know. This is the life of the Pharisees ( remember they were scholars, educators, soothsayers, and more...); all people in authority. Which is all that people watch today. That’s why Jesus tells us, “ Beware of the UNLEAVENED bread of the Pharisees”. They make you think through forms of man’s education that you need to know about people’s where abouts, mind states, situation of the heart, and all things that only GOD knows.
The Pharisees are all about confusion, judgement, worshipping man before God, and all things that mirror and try to contradict Jesus, not follow Him. Growing in faith to see when it’s not about God ( even when His name is used)is about reading the scriptures daily, believing, praying and fasting.
Passages:
Jesus talking to the Pharisees ( imagine that this is still today as Pharisees have a lineage; people that follow them and are educated by them. and that is many people).
33 ‘No one lights a lamp and puts it in some hidden place or under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand so that people may see the light when they come in.
34 The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is clear, your whole body, too, is filled with light; but when it is diseased your body, too, will be darkened.
35 See to it then that the light inside you is not darkness.
36 If, therefore, your whole body is filled with light, and not darkened at all, it will be light entirely, as when the lamp shines on you with its rays.’
37 He had just finished speaking when a Pharisee invited him to dine at his house. He went in and sat down at table.
38 The Pharisee saw this and was surprised that he had not first washed before the meal.
39 But the Lord said to him, ‘You Pharisees! You clean the outside of cup and plate, while inside yourselves you are filled with extortion and wickedness.
40 Fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside too?
41 Instead, give alms from what you have and, look, everything will be clean for you.
42 But alas for you Pharisees, because you pay your tithe of mint and rue and all sorts of garden herbs and neglect justice and the love of God! These you should have practised, without neglecting the others.
43 Alas for you Pharisees, because you like to take the seats of honour in the synagogues and to be greeted respectfully in the market squares!
44 Alas for you, because you are like the unmarked tombs that people walk on without knowing it!’
45 A lawyer then spoke up. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘when you speak like this you insult us too.’
46 But he said, ‘Alas for you lawyers as well, because you load on people burdens that are unendurable, burdens that you yourselves do not touch with your fingertips.
47 ‘Alas for you because you build tombs for the prophets, the people your ancestors killed!
48 In this way you both witness to what your ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing, you do the building.
49 ‘And that is why the Wisdom of God said, “I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will slaughter and persecute,
50 so that this generation will have to answer for every prophet’s blood that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the Temple.” Yes, I tell you, this generation will have to answer for it all.
52 ‘Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone in yourselves and have prevented others from going in who wanted to.’
53 When he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began a furious attack on him and tried to force answers from him on innumerable questions,
54 lying in wait to catch him out in something he might say.
Their unleavened bread is noted by worshipping man before GOD that’s all we need to know;
John 12:42-43
42 And yet there were many who did believe in him, even among the leading men, but they did not admit it, because of the Pharisees and for fear of being banned from the synagogue:
43 they put human glory before God’s glory.