THE FATE OF LYMAN WIGHT

 Interesting historical perspective:

Lyman Wight tried to build a temple and to lead a group of followers away from the Utah Saints. Brigham Young prophesied warned him against it as he needed to stay United to with the other Apostles.

God destroyed Lyman Wight’s temple with a flood and what he is only known today by his evil works.

Brigham Young’s Fulfilled Prophecy Regarding Lyman Wight

On November 9, 1848, Brigham Young assigned two missionaries to find Lyman Wight’s colony in Texas and instruct them to gather to Utah. On that occasion, Brigham instructed them “to go and hunt up Lyman Wight. We want to know what he is doing… Learn his purposes and intentions, and if he does not come up right soon, the spirit of the Lord will say, ‘Clip the thread and he will go down at once’.” (Mel Johnson, Polygamy on the Pedernales page 120)

This Prophecy was quickly fulfilled. Even though Lyman Wight and his people had completed a small temple in February 1849, by Spring 1851 massive flooding forced them to permanently abandon their colony and temple in Zodiac. Other events that followed resulted in most of the Colony separating from Wight. By 1858 Lyman Wight decided to abandon Texas to return to Jackson County, Missouri with the few followers he had left. However, he died the day after they left, on March 31, 1858.