Here are the 26 figures mentioned in my YouTube video.

1. Madame Guyon: The "State of Nothingness" & the Geneva Trap

Madame Guyon was a French mystic who sought a life of "pure love" and absolute union with God. She felt a burning certainty that she was called to an apostolic mission in the Geneva region to bring about a spiritual reformation.

The Humbling: Almost as soon as she arrived in Gex, her "open door" turned into a prison. The religious authorities she expected to assist her instead slandered her, demanded her wealth, and eventually had her imprisoned in the Bastille. She had to face the "foolishness" of being a woman who gave up everything for a mission that ended in a cell. Through this, God broke her reliance on spiritual "success," leading her to a state of "nothingness" where only Christ remained.

2. Cotton Mather: The "Calculated" End

A giant of the American Puritan era, Mather was a polymath who spent hours every day in prayer. He used intense biblical study and what he believed were "divine promptings" to predict the exact year of Christ’s return—first in 1697, then 1716, and finally 1736.

The Humbling: Each date passed without incident. For a man of his intellectual and spiritual stature, these failures were public humiliations. In his private diaries, he wrestled with the "dark night of the soul," wondering why God allowed him to feel such "certainty" only to be proven wrong. He remained a pillar of the church, but these failures served as a permanent thorn in his side, tempering his pride with painful humility.

3. John Wesley: The "High Church" Shipwreck

Before founding Methodism, Wesley was a rigid young priest who felt a "divine certainty" that his mission to the American colony of Georgia was a great "open door" to establish a perfect, primitive Church.

The Humbling: The mission was an unmitigated disaster. He alienated his congregation with his legalism and fled the colony under threat of arrest. On the boat back to England, he famously wrote: "I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?" He looked like a fool to the mission boards, but this "incorrect conjecture" broke his religious pride, leading to his true conversion at Aldersgate.

4. George Whitefield: The "Sons of Thunder" Error

Whitefield was the most famous preacher of the Great Awakening. When his first son was born, he felt a "divine impression" that this child was destined to be a great preacher who would surpass him in ministry. He publicly baptized the boy, naming him John, and prophesied his future greatness.

The Humbling: The baby died of a sudden seizure at only four months old. Whitefield was devastated, not just by the loss, but by the realization that he had mistaken his own fatherly desires for the voice of God. He later wrote candidly about how he had "conjectured incorrectly" and warned others against trusting "inward impressions" over the written Word.

5. William Cowper: The "Deceived" Poet

The 18th-century poet and hymnist William Cowper lived with a recurring "certainty" that God had spoken to him, yet he struggled with severe clinical depression. He became convinced that God had "promised" him a specific sign of salvation that never came.

The Humbling: Cowper often felt he was being "mocked" by voices or impressions he thought were divine. To his friend John Newton, Cowper looked like a man deceived by his own mind. He died believing he was a castaway, yet his "foolishness" produced some of the most spiritually sensitive hymns in history, proving that a person can feel "deceived" by God while being held firmly in His hand.

6. William Carey: The "Father" in the Ruins

Carey is the hero of modern missions, but he entered India with the "certainty" that God would provide a hedge of protection around his family as he obeyed the Great Commission.

The Humbling: His five-year-old son died, and his wife, Dorothy, lost her mind completely under the grief. Carey had to face the "foolishness" of a man who had "heard from God" to save a nation but could not save his own family’s health or sanity. It stripped him of any "hero" complex and turned him into a man of "plodding" dependence on grace alone.

7. William Miller: The "Great Disappointment"

Miller was a respected Baptist lay preacher known for his integrity. Based on a meticulous study of Daniel, he became convinced that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. He preached this with absolute, humble certainty, convincing thousands.

The Humbling: The sun rose on October 23rd, and nothing happened. Miller was crushed and publicly confessed his error. He lived out his remaining years in obscurity, humbled by the realization that his "calculations" had tried to pin down the Sovereign God. His "incorrect conjecture" became known as the "Great Disappointment."

8. Adoniram Judson: The "Field of Death"

Judson entered Burma with a burning certainty that the "fields were white for harvest." He expected an immediate opening for the Gospel and a quick work of the Spirit.

The Humbling: He labored for seven years before seeing a single convert. During this time, he was imprisoned in a "death house," his wife and children died, and he suffered such deep depression he dug his own grave. To the mission boards, Judson looked like a failure who had misheard his calling. God broke his confidence in his own strategy so that the eventual harvest would be recognized as a purely divine miracle.

9. Edward Irving: The "Apostolic Restoration"

Irving was a brilliant, godly minister in London who became convinced that the "spiritual gifts" were about to be restored in a specific, world-changing wave that would usher in the Second Coming. He staked his reputation on the idea that God was moving in the 1830s to restore the office of Apostle.

The Humbling: While there were "manifestations" in his church, they did not lead to the global revival he expected. Instead, they led to chaos, a trial for heresy, and his ejection from the Church of Scotland. He died at age 42, looking broken and somewhat "deceived" by a move he thought was closer than it actually was.

10. George Mueller: The "Long Delay" as Foolishness

Mueller is the "Apostle of Prayer," but his "certainty" often made him look delusional. He kept a list of individuals for whose conversion he had a "divine certainty" from God.

The Humbling: One of these men did not convert until 63 years after Mueller began praying. Two others did not come to Christ until after Mueller died. For decades, Mueller had to endure the silent "foolishness" of having publicly staked his reputation on individuals who remained stubbornly pagan. He had to learn that God’s "Yes" doesn't always mean "Yes, while you are alive."

11. Andrew Murray: The "Silent" Teacher of Healing

Murray wrote extensively on "Divine Healing," teaching that physical healing was a "promise" to be claimed with certainty. He conjectured that a godly servant walking in the Spirit should not be hindered by physical infirmity.

The Humbling: At the peak of his influence, Murray lost his voice for two years. He had to travel to seek medical help—the very "means" he had sometimes downplayed. During those two years of silence, God broke his pride in his own "teaching gift." When his voice returned, he was no longer an "expert" on healing; he was a "patient" of the Great Physician.

12. Hudson Taylor: The "Open Door" turned Massacre

Taylor moved the China Inland Mission into the interior, convinced that God had "opened the door" and would be a "wall of fire" around His servants.

The Humbling: During the Boxer Rebellion (1900), 79 of his missionaries and their children were brutally murdered. Taylor, recovering from a breakdown in Switzerland, looked like a man who had led "lambs to the slaughter" based on a misheard promise. He entered a "dark night" where he could not even pray, forced to reconcile the "Great Commission" with a horrific massacre.

13. Charles Spurgeon: The "Downgrade" Defeat

The "Prince of Preachers" expected a grand victory for truth when he took a stand against liberalism in the Baptist Union. He was certain that a "Gideon’s Army" would rise up and purify the Church.

The Humbling: Instead, he was almost entirely abandoned and censured by the Union. He died shortly after, feeling he had "failed" to save his denomination. He looked foolish—an "old-fashioned" man shouting at a tide he couldn't stop. It was only decades later that history vindicated his "conjecture" as a prophetic warning, but he died in the "foolishness" of the loss.

14. A.B. Simpson: The "Annihilation" of Ambition

Simpson, founder of the C&MA, was a young, brilliant pastor who "conjectured" that a massive revival would occur through his refined, intellectual preaching. He expected God to bless his ambitious plans.

The Humbling: He suffered a total physical and nervous breakdown, with doctors giving him only months to live. He found himself unable to work and looking like a failure. Simpson later admitted God had to "annihilate" his ambition. It was only after this total "breaking" that he received a healing he wasn't looking for and began the work that actually changed the world.

15. Smith Wigglesworth: The "Faith" that Met its Limit

Wigglesworth was known for "commanding" healing, but his greatest humbling came at the bedside of his wife, Polly. He was "certain" God would not take his partner and rebuked death, commanding her to come back.

The Humbling: She actually sat up and talked to him, but said, "Smith, the Lord wants me." He had to make the excruciating choice to "let her go." This was a massive blow to the pride of the "miracle-worker," forcing him to realize that even the highest faith is subject to the Sovereignty of God.

16. Amy Carmichael: The "Captured" Rescuer

Carmichael was a "soldier" in India, certain that her work required her to be "on the ground" and mobile. She conjectured that God’s blessing was tied to her physical ability to "do the work."

The Humbling: In 1931, she fell into a pit, shattering her leg and damaging her spine. she was bedridden for the next 20 years. To the world, the "great missionary" had been sidelined. She had to deal with the "foolishness" of being a rescuer who had to be cared for. Yet, in that room, she wrote the books that influenced millions. God humbled her pride in "doing" so she could master "being."

17. Rees Howells: The "Grants of Faith"

Howells, the founder of the Bible College of Wales, was known for "decreeing" things in prayer with absolute certainty. During WWII, he often felt he had received a "divine guarantee" regarding specific battles.

The Humbling: There were several instances where Howells made a public claim that God was going to do a specific thing by a certain date, and it simply did not happen. These moments were deeply humbling for a man who truly heard from God in other areas. He had to learn the hard distinction between his own intense desire for victory and a true divine decree.

18. A.W. Pink: The "Great Ministry" that Never Was

Pink was certain he was called to a global teaching ministry. He traveled across three continents, "certain" that each new city would be the "great opening" God had promised for his gifts.

The Humbling: Every single door was slammed. He spent the last 12 years of his life as a hermit on the Isle of Lewis. To acquaintances, Pink looked like a failed pastor who couldn't "hear God" well enough to stay in one church. God humbled his pride by denying him a pulpit to give him a pen; without that "failure," we wouldn't have his books today.

19. T. Austin-Sparks: The "Rejected" Messenger

Sparks felt a "burning certainty" that if he preached Christ with enough purity, denominational walls would melt. He conjectured that God was opening a door for a global "reformation of the inner life."

The Humbling: He was excommunicated and blacklisted. His visit to Taiwan caused a massive controversy and split. He returned to England feeling like a "failure" who had caused division. He died with his "Heavenly Vision" largely hidden, having to trust that God would use his "failed" reputation to feed future generations.

20. A.W. Tozer: The "Blind Spot" of the Seer

Tozer had an uncanny ability to see through "religious fluff." He conjectured that if a man was truly "lost in God," his earthly life and relationships would be naturally taken care of.

The Humbling: While a giant in the pulpit, his domestic life was a "failed promise." After he died, his wife famously said her new husband actually "loved her," whereas Aiden (Tozer) only "loved God." This was a profound humbling—to be the man who wrote The Pursuit of God while failing to pursue the hearts of his own family.

21. C.S. Lewis: The "Stay of Execution"

When his wife, Joy, was dying of cancer, she experienced a sudden remission. Lewis felt a "great certainty" that God had granted a complete healing, speaking of it as a divine "stay of execution."

The Humbling: The cancer returned shortly after, and Joy died. Lewis felt "the door was slammed in his face." He wrestled with the feeling that he had misread the "voice" of God. Despite this period of perceived "deception," Lewis remained a pillar of the faith, but his "certainty" was replaced by a much more grounded, suffering faith.

22. Leonard Ravenhill: The "Revival in the Clouds"

Ravenhill lived in a state of constant, agonizing certainty that God was just about to rend the heavens. He spoke with "prophetic certainty" that a revival was "at the door."

The Humbling: The revival he described did not happen in his lifetime. Instead, he watched the rise of the "Prosperity Gospel," which he hated. He had to face the "foolishness" of being a prophet whose prophecy didn't come to pass while he was alive. God made him a "watchman over a dry well," forcing him to trust that his prayers were stored in heaven rather than answered on his schedule.

23. David Wilkerson: The "Watchman’s" Burden

In 2009, Wilkerson posted an "Urgent Message," stating he was "compelled by the Holy Spirit" to warn of an imminent economic and social "calamity" that would hit major cities within a very short, specific window.

The Humbling: The specific, apocalyptic calamity did not occur in the timeline people inferred. Wilkerson was mocked by critics and questioned by peers. It served as a reminder that even a seasoned "watchman" can mistake the intensity of a burden for the accuracy of a timeline, forcing him back into a posture of humility.

24. Charles Stanley: The "Obedience" without the Outcome

Stanley preached a life of absolute certainty: "Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him." He conjectured that if he remained faithful to his principles, God was certain to bring a miraculous reconciliation to his struggling marriage.

The Humbling: Despite his prayers and refusal to step down, the divorce was finalized in 2000. He had to stand before his church and essentially admit that his "expectation" of restoration had failed. God used this "shame" to make him more relatable; he shifted from a teacher of "perfect principles" to a messenger of "broken grace."

25. Zac Poonen: The "Betrayal" of the Vision

Poonen felt a "divine certainty" about several "spiritual sons" who would be the foundation of a new, pure movement in India. He publicly endorsed them as God’s chosen vessels.

The Humbling: Several of these men later turned against him or fell into sin. For a man whose ministry is built on "spiritual discernment," these "misses" were devastating. He had to admit he was wrong about their hearts, a surgical strike against the pride of "knowing the hearts of men."

26. Angus Buchan: The "Seven-Day" Rebuke

In March 2020, Buchan released a video "rebuking the pestilence" of COVID-19, telling his followers with absolute certainty that he had heard from God and the virus would be gone within a week.

The Humbling: The virus intensified, and Buchan himself contracted it shortly after. This made him look "foolish" in the eyes of the media. He had to face the reality that his boldness had outrun his revelation, forcing him into a "humiliating" isolation to recover and rethink his agricultural approach to spiritual timing.