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.
 


In whom has God made us accepted?
By what name is Christ appropriately called?
How does the Revelator describe this satanic desire to destroy Christ?
Against what evil should fathers guard?
22. What prophetic period begins at the time when the continual mediation of Christ was taken away by the Papacy?
Of what was the, blood of all the sacrifices of the former dispensation only a type?
What are the objects of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States?

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