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.

14. What beings of a higher order than man desire to study the truths revealed in the gospel of Christ?
What do the heavens declare?
What home did God make for man in the beginning?
To whom are those who suffer exhorted to commit their souls?
How does the death of Christ bear testimony to this?
According to the New Testament, what day immediately precedes the first day of the week?
What complaint is made against Sunday trains and Sunday newspapers?

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