Why did not these ancient worthies receive the promise?

Answer

"And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided
some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." Heb. 11: 39,40.

What is the basis of faith?
What reason did they give for not receiving Him?
Through what was Christ made a complete and perfect Saviour?
What did the Apostle Paul say the \"man of sin\" would do?
If John, therefore, referred to a day of the week, on what day must he have been in the Spirit?
On opening the fifth seal, what was seen under the altar?
What announcement is made under the seventh plague?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle