Va'erah: perception

Va'erah: perception

What did Pharaoh think was going on?  The waters turn to blood;  frogs, lice, animals, pestilence, boils, hail...Often, there are predictions and he always turns to Moshe to stop them. 

Phaoraoh and the Egyptians must have thought that Nature was turning against them.  The consequences of global warming.  He saw that often a  plague was the consequence of the preceding plague: The water turned to blood, the frogs had to leave the water.  A mixed multitude of beasts trampled through Egypt and infected the indigenous cattle and the human manifestation ( of hoof and mouth disease) was boils. What is so miraculous?

He saw J as having the power to stop these terrible events, but not necessarily as their cause.

Meanwhile J backs up whatever Moshe negotiates. The time when the plagues terminate is the demonstration of power

This is a time when Gd wants to demonstrate powers. Once and for all times, so that it will be repeated annualy, ,weekly and daily.  So it will never have to happen again?

Will Gd save us from global warming and our half baked schemes to stop it? There are certainly some hard hearts on that debate.