Piece by Erroneous Piece #1

Response to a man rejecting the time line the Lord established through the work of Mr. Camping – and is trying to set up his own:

McCann response:

I'll take it piece by erroneous piece. First, you wrote: "On several occasions, I have asked members of your fellowship to provide a word study on Daniel 12:12–13 to support their conclusions regarding the 1,335 days at the end of days."

I know you have not asked "members" of our fellowship anything – because there are no members. Are there group members in a Facebook group? Yes. Facebook does that.

But E Bible Fellowship is NOT a fellowship group. Although, there's nothing wrong with fellowship groups. As the Lord has permitted them. The existence of Mr. Camping's Alameda fellowship from the time he learned/taught about the end of the Church Age (around 2001) until May 21, 2011, I think would show that God had no problem with the existence of fellowship groups – considering the Lord greatly blessed those studies on FR and considering that you yourself as well as many FR listeners learned much from the Bible from his teachings that originated in Alameda Fellowship.

Did you ask people that listen to EBF or are a part of EBF ministry? OK. So what? Not everyone has every answer. Especially about difficult passages. As a matter of fact, you yourself are wrong about those verses. Let's prove that next.

You wrote: "Any such study must begin with the fact that the word “He” does not appear in the original text and therefore cannot be referring to Christ."

You say that "He" does not appear in the original text. This makes me wonder just how much time you have spent in the Hebrew? Or in the Bible itself?

The Hebrew in Daniel 12:12 which the KJV translators translated as "Blessed is He that waiteth" is translating it with the masculine pronoun based on the word “wait” being masculine singular (הַֽמְחַכֶּ֖ה).

You say the word "He" does not exist and therefore cannot refer to Christ.

Yet, the Bible teaches us differently. For example, in Matthew 21:9 at Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem the people cried out:

Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: BLESSED IS HE THAT COMETH in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

And again, in chapter 23:

Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Do we find the masculine pronoun in these Scriptures? No, we do not.

Literally, it reads "Blessed is the One that cometh". But since a masculine definite article was used it was translated (properly) as "He".

These two verses in Matthew are sufficient to show the error of your statement concerning Daniel 12:12.

So in your first paragraph you misspeak concerning members of a fellowship that doesn't exist and has no membership. And also you say that because the masculine pronoun was not used it could not be referring to Jesus. Which has been easily disproven as we have gone to 2 Scriptures in the N.T. that without question are referring to Jesus while using no masculine pronouns in the process.

Your foundation is already shown to be faulty. Your methods questionable. And this is what you have built more upon.