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.

How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought by being baptized into Christ?
Of what were the works of Abraham an evidence?
Who will thus he judged by the saints?
5. Does the second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth commandment indicate the author of the Decalogue?
Where had the prophet said Christ should he born?
Have the worthies of old gone to their reward?
In his dream at Bethel, what did Jacob see?

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