The World Was Not Worthy

Reformation Baptist Church

Hebrews 11:35-40. After considering the people who were involved in subduing kingdoms, the writer moves on to those who were not as well know. We should expect that there were many men and women who were saved, but did not have great success that changed the history of Israel. They still were important examples of faith, like the women whose sons were raised up by Elijah and Elisha to many people who were tortured for their faith. We know of the hundred prophets who Ahab tried to kill but were protected by Obediah, but the point of the passage is that there were others who suffered for their faith. Men and women who did not receive a reward in this life, but because they trusted in the promises of God, they died because they refused to deny God. They suffered because their hope was not in this world, just as our hope is not to be in this world even with the better promises that we have been given.