No, the Prophets were not self-aggrandizing, though they did suffer the same "pride" issues we do. We have to bury the "pride" thing. If you don't agree, then you'll have to be vindicated or humiliated by your own self-declared standard. I play it safe, personally.
To be honest, my calling has been of God for over 35 years, so I don't take peoples advice who try to get me to think that I don't hear the Holy Spirit, tbh, I don't even get where that kind of thinking comes from brother. The truth is, we have many false prophet types in the world today, only 5 of the 10 brides will be raptured, I hear God, and I speak, I also know when others don't hear God but I let them speak without much pushback, Jesus said to wipe the dust off of your feet, Jesus didn't say if they wouldn't hear you force them to hear you. Jesus said my sheep will hear my voice, Jesus also said man will say Lord Lord and he will eventually say depart from me for I never knew you, thus there are many that hear God's voice and speak and many who are not hearing his voice and thus are being whispered unto by the liar who never sleeps, Satan. He whispered to Peter, and Jesus had to say get thee behind me Satan. Small wonders he's always trying to confuse the church with lies. Look at the Church brother, should we have one interpretion from God or many?
No, you didn't prove that Dan 8 is the endtimes--not by any percentage. Your claiming to know something, and then verifying that by another claim, that you're inspired by the Holy Spirit whereas others are not, will make points with nobody. It is a claim upon a claim.
Of course I didn't to you, because you already have your mind made up on the facts of Daniel chapter 8, but I proved it via the scriptures, that is all I need to do. I don't worry about what other men think, I will leave that to be between you and God. He will judge us all, but of course anyone who thinks that Daniel 8 is about Antiochus and has invested years in that is not going to see it as end times unless they are willing to change their opinion, most people, sadly, learn prophecy from other men, because Revelation, Daniel etc. was way over our heads as young Christians we read books, listened to certain type preachers etc. etc. and thus we took on other men's traditions without even realizing it, Satan is super sneaky, then we get LOCKED INTO POSITIONS, and our pride refuses to allow us to budge, then Satan laughs at us when God can't correct us. Its like you or I being taught 2 + 2 = 5 for 15 -20 years, when we hear it is actually 4, we are going to be like GET OUT of here !! That is God's problem there, you know how I know, He answered my prayer one night and told me as much in a sort of rebuke.
As a man, called unto Prophecy specifically (in a Vision in 1986 a loud booming voice from above simply said "The Man of Sin is Here" then in another vision, to affirm the first vision I was in a huge auditorium where maybe 10 people were listening to Jimmy Swaggart preach, within 2 weeks he had fallen from grace) I prayed one night about 5 or 6 years ago this prayer, "Lord, why is the church always in confusion? Why is it we have 100's of interpretations of what/who Babylon is, who the 7 Headed Beast is, who the Harlot is, who the 144,000 is etc. etc. but there is only one truth?
And I got this from the Holy Spirit
"Ron, you guys already know it all" and I understood instantly. Notice how the Lord is always to the point? So, what did that mean? It meant we as men were learning these prophetic utterings from other men, just like the Pharisees were told by Jesus that the reason you can't see who I am is because of your
"Men's Traditions" !! So, because we all learned these prophetic things from other men, Satan has us not only confused as a church on prophecy, but bound up to many of these untruths.
Right then I understood what I had to do, it was so simple, anytime I came upon anything in the bible, especially on prophecy, that was contradictory or confusing I was to stop, and simple ask the Lord, show me your truths Lord, just like I had done when I first got saved with the Gospels, where Jesus/Holy Spirit never failed me. So, I started doing just that, and the answers always have cone to me in the last 5 or so years. I wrote a blog that took a long time on Babylon saying that the Babylon of Rev. 17 was actually Rome, the Lord was like
"You are wrong Ron, Babylon is not Rome, LOOK at what John actually SAW".
So, I went back to reading, and saw the Vision that verse 18 points unto (what John SAWEWST) was only four verses long (verses 3-6), and thus what John actually saw, was a Harlot (All False Religion of all time) who was indeed co-mingled with Babylon the Great (All False Governance under Satan). It was never Rome, Babylon represents this whole wicked world under the liar Satan. Rev. 16:19 says so, it says God gave Great Babylon His wrath of the wine-press, so who did Jesus defeat at the 7th vial? Well, the 6th Vial tells us, all the Kings of the WHOLE WORLD !!
The reason the Church has 100s of different interpretations is because its members are hearing Satan's lying voice, thus he divides us into senseless arguments for no reason. If you stop and think, you know what you basically said to me earlier? We can't ever know if its the truth from God or not. The truth is Satan has most people confused on prophecy because, they do just what I did for almost 30 years, not realizing that all I ever had to do was ask God, Lord, show me your truths, instead I read books from other men for 30 years and placed ROADBLOCKS in front of God (2 + 2 = 5) where I kept repeating Satan's lie, 2 + 2 = 5. And in Prophecy small detours become HUGE OFF ROAD ventures. I know people who think the Seals are already broken because Jesus in Rev. 5 was not seen in Heaven, I joke not, when I point out that he was also not seen on the earth nor under the earth, I ask, was Jesus a NOWHERE MAN? And they can't answer, but refuse to shift their understandings, they are LOCKED IN, the Seals have all been opened except for the 6th Seal of God's Wrath, the 5th Seal Martyrs are the Church Age Martyrs according to them. Thus they get off tracked by Satan via ONE VERSE !! And once they go down that road a 1000 mules can't bring them back, its pride I guess, like you stated, but we can't point unto everyone and say, well, its pride, no some indeed do hear God's voice, and some don't that has always been the case, the pride is not being able to hear God's voice because of ones own love affair with his own thoughts. Satan had that problem, I will be like unto the most High God !!
I always recognized the holy spirits voice, all that time, I could hear the lies from Satan at all times, any time some one spoke these preterist views or said the Beast was the RCC or even Islamic, I could see those were just not truthful, but I couldn't see the things I had learned from other men were in many cases just not factual. So, if a preacher was great and 90 percent of what he said was truth on prophecy, I still got 10 percent bad info. Take the 144,000, they are said to be SUPER PREACERS, but the bible never once says that, in fact it says they need PROTECTION by God. So, that is just a myth, which stops us from understanding that the 144,000 just like the 10 virgins is a CODE word/number. So, we don't have a hard time understanding that 10 represents the whole of Christendom, and that the female virgins are the whole church both male and female, all because we know the number 10 represents completion. But when God gives another CODED HINT in the book of Revelation, we miss it, 12 (Fulness) x 12 x 10 (Completion) x 10 x 10 = 144,000 or ALL Israel who repents, and they are not all male Virgins, just like the 10 Brides are not all Female Virgins !! Anytime God TIMES a number he's adding emphasis, like He has saved Himself 7000 well is it 7000 or 144,000 ? Well its both, because 7 x 10 x 10 x 10 = God shouting COMPLETION just like 12 x 12 x 10 x 10 x 10 does. Remember New Jerusalem is 144,000 cubits also? The 10 Commandments represents all Gods Laws. The 7 Eyes and 7 Spirits shows us God sees all and is omnipotent, the number 7 means completion also, thus 7 x 10 x 10 x 10 means ALL Israel. In Rev. 2:10 the Church of Smyrna was told they would have tribulation 10 days, that means for the complete Church Age. The hosts of Angels are 10,000 x 10,000 or 200 million right ? No, that just means ALL the Hosts of Heaven will be in attendance. God isn't going to try to tell us there will be 1,789, 923, 761, 345, 981 Angels in attendance, He just uses a number that means ALL of Heaven will be there,
Point being, the reason the 144,000 are not seen as the Jews who repented fleeing Judea unto the mountains is we have named them Super Preachers, which is a falsehood. When we get it right, we can then maybe see that the Trumpet Judgments in Rev 8 are the first judgments and the Jews are fleeing at the 1290, which is 30 days before the 1260 Anti-Christ comes to power. The church can't see that because they see these 144,000 as Super Preachers, so Satan has done well via his deception in that case. He knows if he can get a falsehood on one mountain so to speak, he can then confuse elsewhere.