Prophets and Plagues: Intimidating Ourselves

I have personally witnessed three rather minor plagues in my life, involving grasshoppers, cockroaches, and tarantulas.  They did not intimidate me the way the threat of plagues intimidated the Chosen People into returning to their God.  We look at the Prophets and their predictions of plagues - and we consider how we today must adapt to the lack of outward warnings when we are going astray morally.