Vision Theme: Plague
Spencer, Visions of Glory
(p. 128) About this time, a devastating plague swept across the nation. It came in three waves. Each wave more virulent, killing healthier people, and killing them quicker. It swept across North and South America and around the world killing billions. But the troops who arrived seemed to be mostly immune to it, though a few of them died. It took many months before the survivors of the plague realized the true source of it.
(p.131) About this time, the same plague that had devastated so much of the east arrived in Utah as it spread across the nation. As I said, we found out later that the plague was man-made, and the troops had been inoculated against the pathogen that caused the plague.
(p. 132) When a person contracted the plague, they got many small pox marks on their skin similar to pimples. They grey very sick quickly. The itching and pain were severe. Shortly before death, the pox erupted and oozed. This fluid was extremely contagious. Everyone who touched it got sick. The very young and very old died first. Those who were trying to help others got contaminated by touching the fluid and died next.
…I was left with the impression that between the earthquake and the plague, more than half of the population had been killed–more on the coastlines and fewer inland.
(Visions of Glory)
John Taylor
Here are the cities he talks of being particularly impacted by the plague and other forms of deadly chaos:
Salt Lake City, Council Bluffs, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Broadway, NY, Grand Central Park, Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. He reports seeing death on a large scale due to a plague of sickness, violence, murder, fires, no one left to bury the piles of dead people. Major cities evacuated.
(p.35 of Dreams and Visions of the Last Days Vol. 1 by Roger Young)
Here’s an excerpt from his vision:
I was then in a dream, immediately in the city of Salt Lake, and wandering around in the streets and in all parts of the city, and on the doors of the houses I found badges of mourning and I could not find a house but was in mourning. I passed my own house and found the same sign there, and I asked the question, “Is that me that is dead?” Someone gave me the answer, “No, you will get through it all.”
It seemed strange to me that I saw no person in the streets in all my wandering around the country. I seemed to be in their houses with the sick, but saw no funeral procession, nor anything of the kind, but the city looking still and as though the people were praying. And it seemed that they had controlled the disease, but what the disease was I did not learn; it was not made known to me. I then looked over the country, north, east, south, and west, and the same mourning was in every land and in every place.
Sarah Menet
I then saw a man walk into the middle of a crowd of people and drop what seemed like a quart full of liquid. The jar broke and the liquid spread. I understand that people nearby had become infected with a disease from the liquid, and they didn’t even know it. A day or two later people became sick and started dying. I saw that this would happen in at least four particular cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. This disease started with white blisters, some of the size of a dime, appearing on the hands, arms and faces of the victims. The blisters quickly developed into white puffy sores. Those with the disease would stumble around and fall over dead.
I also saw other people with a flu-like virus that spread more quickly than the first disease. The victims had blood coming from their nose, mouth, eyes, and ears. These people died even faster of this disease than the ones who had the first sickness. These diseases became widespread across the US with hundreds of thousands infected. Many died within a short time, perhaps 24 hours.
Also from Menet:
As I looked upon this scene of chaos, smoke, and destruction, I noticed there were small pockets of light scattered over the US, perhaps 20 or 30 of them. I noticed that most of the locations of light were in the western part of the US with only three of four of them being in the East. These places of light seemed to shine brightly through the darkness and were such a contrast to the rest of the scene that they caught my full attention. I focused on them for a moment and asked, “What is this light?”
I was then able to see these points of light were people who had gathered together and were kneeling in prayer. The light was actually coming from the people, and I understood that it was showing forth their goodness and love for each other. They had gathered together for safety and contrary to what I had witnessed elsewhere were caring more for each other than for themselves. Some of the groups were small with only a hundred people or so. Other groups consisted of what seemed to be thousands.
I realized that many, if not all, of these places of light, or “cities o flight” had somehow been established just before the biological attack and they were very organized. In these places were relative peace and safety. I noticed the gangs made no threats on these groups. However, the people within had defenses and God was with them.
(From Menet’s book, ‘There is no Death’)
Charles Evans
Again the light shone, revealing an atmosphere tinged with a leaden hue which was the precursor of an unparalleled plague whose first symptoms were recognized by a purple spot which appeared on the cheek or on the back of the hand and which invariably enlarged until it spread over the entire surface of the body producing certain death.
(Appears in Visions of Glory, p. 259)
The Dream of the Plagues (1884)
On the first page was a picture of a feast in progress, with the long table set upon a beautiful lawn, over which were interspersed with clumps of fine shrubs and towering trees. The landscape presented the appearance of midsummer. The sky, and indeed the whole atmosphere appeared of a peculiar sickly brassy hue, similar to that which may be observed when the sun is wholly eclipsed and the disc is just beginning again to give its light. Throughout the atmosphere small white specks were represented, similar to a scattering fall of minute snowflakes in winter.
About the table a party of richly dressed ladies and gentlemen were seated in the act of partaking of the rich repast with which the table was laden. The minute specks falling from above were dropping into the food apparently unheeded by all, for a sudden destruction had come upon them.
Below this picture was the description: “A camp of the Saints who have gathered together and are living under the daily revelations of God, and thus preserved from the plague.” I understood from this that each family was in its tent during the hours of the day that the poison falls, and thus were preserved from breathing the deadly particles.
The church issues a call out to hide in the mountains for 18-24 months to preserve us from the plague. “Tent Cities” are protected from the troops.
(1884) (“The Dream of Plagues” was published in The Contributor. August 1884, 5:411, see also http://visionsandtribulation.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-dream-of-plagues.html).
The Cardston Prophecy
I saw further on, instructions given whereby places of refuge prepared quietly but efficiently by inspired elders. I saw Cardston and the surrounding foothills, especially north and west for miles, being prepared for your people quietly but quickly. I saw the fuel resources of the district develop in many places and vast piles of coal and timber stored for future use and building. I saw the territory carefully surveyed and mapped out, for the camping of a great body of the people of the church. I saw provisions also made for a big influx of people who will not at first belong to the church , but who will gather in their tribulation. I was these things going on practically unknown to the Gentile world.
I saw the inspired call sent forth to all the church, to gather to the refuges of Zion. I saw the stream of your people quietly moving in the direction of their refuge. I saw your people moving more quickly in larger numbers until all the stragglers were housed. I saw the wireless message flashed from Zion’s refuge to Zion’s refuge in their several places that all was well with them, and then the darkness of chaos closed around the boundaries of your people, and the last days of tribulation had begun.
(1923) (Appears in Visions of Glory on p.251) (Cardston, Canada Temple)
