“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac.  And he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, ‘That in Isaac shall your seed be called,’ accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead—from whence also he received him in [...]

“But, now they desire a better country, that is, a Heavenly (one); wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God—for He has prepared for them a City.”  Hebrews 11:16 It’s be more beautiful than anything we can imagine (I Cor. 2:9). Heaven.  The New Jerusalem. Although Abraham’s beliefs in the afterlife were different [...]

“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence the came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.”  Hebrews 11:15 It’s impossible to go with God if we’re looking or walking the other direction or content to stay where we are. “Don’t look back.” That’s what the two angels told [...]

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth.”

Hebrews 11:13

“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful Who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.”

Hebrews 11:11-12

“By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise—for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.” Hebrews 11:9-10 When the transient and temporal seem to be more than [...]