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.

Whose workmanship is the Christian?
How is faith brought to perfection?
How did His questions and answers impress those who heard Him?
Against what evil should fathers guard?
18. Before giving the law at Sinai, what did God say because some of the people went out to gather manna on the seventh day?
After whose body will these resurrected ones be fashioned?
6. Looking forward to the conflicts through which His followers must pass, what cheering message did Christ send them through the Apostle John?

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