The pair, who accused Harmston of racketeering, fraud and breach of contract, won their case in a district court when a jury awarded them $300,000, but the case was thrown out by a judge and later fizzled out. In 1999, as the millennium approached, Harmston issued a “final” warning on his website: “God has shut the mouths of his servants and will begin to do His own work of rendering judgment and calamity upon the wicked and ungodly” — leading some to speculate that he and his followers might make good on their threat to sack the Mormon Church’s Salt Lake Temple, seize power and establish a new Zion in central Utah.