Isaac Leany Receives Prophetic Warning Dream Before Haun's Mill Massacre

On October 29, 1838, at Haun's Mill in Missouri, Isaac Leany received a warning that would prove to be a divinely-inspired vision. The night before the tragic massacre, he had a vivid dream in which he was passing along a trail filled with many snakes that crawled on the ground, hurled themselves through the air, and hung twisting and hissing from the limbs of trees. As he tried to dodge and hurry, his body became pierced and bleeding from the attacks of the angry snakes. In the dream, he finally escaped the serpents and met a man he knew, who said, 'Brother Leany, you are terribly bitten by snakes and lived.' His response was, 'Well, then, I'll be the first for I'm not going to die.' In a patriarchal blessing given to Isaac, he was told he was a direct descendant of Joseph, the Dreamer (son of Jacob) and had inherited the gift of dreams. The next day, during the actual massacre, the prophecy was fulfilled—not by snakes, but by bullets. Despite being shot seven times with bullets passing through his body multiple times, Isaac survived, though he lay near death for some time. The dream's message of survival proved prophetic and true.